Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!pyramid!prls!philabs!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument Summary: Rules of Inference Keywords: Rhetoric and Logic Message-ID: <45500@linus.UUCP> Date: 28 Feb 89 07:05:59 GMT References: <4298@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <8174@netnews.upenn.edu> <764@htsa.uucp> <7586@venera.isi.edu> <230@nbires.nbi.com> <7645@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort) Organization: The Ferchachta Corporation, Yechupetz, NU Lines: 13 In article <7645@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) writes: > I merely wanted to illustrate what one of my mathematics > professors once called "proof by intimidation." We should > know better than to invoke such arguments. A few years ago, a poster on this newsgroup introduced the delightful expression "proof by vigorous assertion" for this form of argumentation. It is right up there with another favorite of mine, "invective utterance". --Barry Kort