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From: jacob@latcs1.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Reasoning Paradigms
Message-ID: <8948@latcs1.oz.au>
Date: 9 Oct 90 01:18:43 GMT
References: <3586@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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From article <3586@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, by minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky):
>> Minsky's postings have (not surprisingly) suggested
>> that rule-based, logico-mathematical, reasoning is the
>> basis of all other types of reasoning
> 
> I hope that no one in net-world will believe that I ever said or
> maintained anything of the sort.  Most of my published work attacks
> this idea.

To further this statement, here in Australia, Minsky is regarded as one of
the greatest "scruffies" of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science,
as opposed to logico-oriented "neaties".

Jacob L. Cybulski

Amdahl Australian Intelligent Tools Program
Department of Computer Science
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Vic 3083, Australia

Phone: +613 479 1270
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