Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iuvax!uceng!dmocsny From: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Do dogs love their humans (was: Can machines think....) Message-ID: <3839@uceng.UC.EDU> Date: 1 Mar 90 18:26:08 GMT References: <2313@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> <1990Feb19.165835.9673@pcsbst.pcs.com> <1990Feb27.162610.16639@comm.WANG.COM> <4030@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> Organization: College of Engg., Univ. of Cincinnati Lines: 15 In article <4030@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes: >Language is exactly the point. The French have 47 words for love, the Eskimos >have 47 words for snow, and the English language speakers have one word for >think -- obviously, thinking is not a large part of our culture. As a result, Let's see: cogitate, reflect, consider, ponder, introspect, use one's mind, apply the mind, reason, deliberate, mull over, contemplate, meditate, ruminate, have in mind, dwell on, brood, keep in mind, remember, recall, recollect, use one's wits, rack one's brain, believe, deem, judge, surmise, presume, anticipate, conclude, guess, suppose, reckon, expect, speculate, imagine, conceive, fancy, intend, purpose, propose, plane, mean, design, contrive. Dan Mocsny dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu