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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: The Dave Peru School of Mental Masturbation
Keywords: Today's mind aerobic
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Date: 26 Oct 88 00:05:50 GMT
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In article <439@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
>There's something missing from figure 18 on p.71 of
>"Godel, Escher, Bach ..." by Douglas R. Hofstadter.


Since you probably don't mean "a sensible approach to illustration," I would
argue that the Figure doesn't amount to much unless it allocates space to the
rules of inference.  (Or do you regard them as involately static as Bach's
greatness?)