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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc,comp.ai
Subject: Re: Why the Chinese Room doesn't convince
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Date: 22 Feb 90 14:12:51 GMT
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From article <cZsr6tS00UhB02WVs9@andrew.cmu.edu>, by qw0w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Quanfeng Wu):
 
>But, when referrin to natural langugaes, what would you mean by saying
>*implementation*? You mean different English speakers have different
>implementations (or say, parsers) of the language English? ...

Possibly displaying different choices of semantic versus syntactic
implementation of number agreement in English:

	There's two modules to implement. (syntactic agreement)
	There're two modules to implement. (semantic agreement)

	Robins are a sign of Spring. (syntactic agreement)
	Robins is a sign of Spring. (semantic agreement)

	Where're the scissors? (syntactic agreement)
	Where's the scissors? (semantic agreement)

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu