Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!beowulf!pluto From: pluto@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Mark E. P. Plutowski) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: <7749@klaatu.rutgers.edu> Summary: Your point is showing. Message-ID: <5590@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:31:19 GMT References: <7749@klaatu.rutgers.edu> <193600002@trsvax>Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: pluto@beowulf.UCSD.EDU (Mark E. P. Plutowski) Organization: EE/CS Dept. U.C. San Diego Lines: 25 In article josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes: > Intelligence is the capacity to do actions, make statements, > exercise judgement, believe knowledge, and pay attention. >--JoSH To which Don Subt replies, " ...my computer can do [such] actions... " To which Josh replies, >I claim that when you say your pc is making statements or >believing knowledge you are using metaphor rather than actually >using the words in the basic senses I (and Webster) meant them. This is just the point Don was making. *You* are using words erroneously, while Don (et.al.) was using them precisely within the context in which we discuss these matters on this net. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Plutowski INTERNET: pluto%cs@ucsd.edu Department of Computer Science, C-014 pluto@beowulf.ucsd.edu University of California, San Diego BITNET: pluto@ucsd.bitnet La Jolla, California 92093 UNIX:{...}!sdcsvax!beowulf!pluto