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From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
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Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
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Date: 8 Jan 90 23:55:56 GMT
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In article <5401@levels.sait.edu.au> CCML@levels.sait.edu.au (Martin) writes:

>book 'Understanding Computers and Cognition'.  In this work, Winograd
>and Flores argue that there is no objective world which can be measured.
>Rather, that the world is created through the language which we use to
>communicate.

Did they *really* say this?  If so, it would be an example of relativism of
the worst sort.  I thought better of T. Winograd.  It reminds me of Edward
Abbey's "Test".  If someone says they are a solopsist, throw a brick at
their head.  It they duck, they are a liar.  Is the brick "created through
the language which we use to communicate"?  Or is it a real, objective, brick?

  Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9,  UUCP ames!lamaster
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