Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!AI.AI.MIT.EDU!NICK From: NICK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Nick Papadakis) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: [hayes.pa@Xerox.COM: Re: AIList V6 #98 - Philosophy] Message-ID: <19880527050321.3.NICK@MACH.AI.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 May 88 05:03:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Date: Tue, 10 May 88 14:56 EDT From: hayes.pa@Xerox.COM Subject: Re: AIList V6 #98 - Philosophy In-reply-to: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws 's message of Mon, 9 May 88 00:25 PDT To: AIList@SRI.COM Resent-Date: Wed, 11 May 88 12:09 EDT Resent-From: Ken Laws Resent-To: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Nancyk has made a valuable contribution to the debate about logic and AI, raising the discussion to a new level. Of course, once one sees that to believe that ( for example ) if P and Q are both true, then P&Q is true, is merely an arifact of concealed organismal Anthropology, a relic of bougeois ideology, the whole matter becomes much clearer. We who have thought that psychology might be relevant to AI have missed the point: of course, political science - specifically, Marxist political science - is the key to making progress. Let us all properly understand the difference between the Organismus-Umwelt Zusammenhang and the Mensch-Umwelt Zusammenhang, and let our science take sides with the working people, and we will be in a wholly new area. And I expect Gilbert will be happier. Thanks, Nancy. Pat Hayes