Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!greenba From: greenba@gambia.crd.ge.com (ben a green) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Language and Self-Awareness (was Re: Testing Intelligence) Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 17:43:47 GMT References: <4832@gara.une.oz.au> <1990Nov30.180650.26648@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <61527@bbn.BBN.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 25 In-reply-to: BKort@bbn.com's message of 12 Dec 90 15:38:06 GMT In article <61527@bbn.BBN.COM> BKort@bbn.com (Barry Kort) writes: In article greenba@gambia.crd.ge.com (Ben A. Green) writes: > Problems can be solved by intuition without any reasoning. I suspect that philosophers and logicians working on intuitionist logic would take exception to the suggestion that intuition is not a form of reasoning. Barry and others are taking "reasoning" to be an honorific term. I don't disparage intuition by distinguishing it from reasoning. Ordinary language, which willhave to do until we can agree on a technical vocabulary, suggests that reasoning is a matter of arguing from statements of facts to statements of conclusions, both of which involve statements, and a fortiori, language. That's all I meant, and I am surprised at the disagreement. -- Ben A. Green, Jr. greenba@crd.ge.com Speaking only for myself, of course.