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From: pluto@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Mark E. P. Plutowski)
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Subject: Re: <7749@klaatu.rutgers.edu>
Summary: Your point is showing.
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Date: 1 Dec 88 18:31:19 GMT
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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.
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