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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: interesting groupware reference
Message-ID: <2033@becker.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 05:05:26 GMT
References: <10211@zodiac.ADS.COM> <5401@levels.sait.edu.au> <40068@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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In article <40068@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
|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?

	Ho, ho, this is droll.

	If someone says they are an objectivist, throw a brick at
	their head. If they duck, ignore them.

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