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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: Recognition and Cognition.
Keywords: Paradox
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Date: 7 Jan 89 14:20:40 GMT
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In article <552@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) asks:

 > Does anyone strongly disagree if I include in the definition of
 > "intelligence" the ability to recognize a paradox?

Contributions to knowledge are made by people who recognize
paradoxes in physics, math, philosophy, logic, etc.  But their
contributions come not from the act of recognition, but from
acts of cognition which resolve the paradox.

--Barry Kort