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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Is AI a proper science?
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Date: 8 Apr 89 04:28:37 GMT
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      Proper science has recourse to experiment to decide issues.  This
makes it possible to establish a base of facts firmly grounded in 
repeatable experiment upon which one can build.  This is one of the
main reasons that physics moves steadily forward.  

      AI needs a sound experimental basis.  Within five to ten years, it
will be given one.  More on this when comp.ai.digest comes back on line.


					John Nagle