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- From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
- Subject: Re: Dualism
- In-Reply-To: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 10 Nov 92 16: 45:52 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:11:33 GMT
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- Jeff Dalton writes:
-
- Minsky's posting was on the table lookup machine. My point was
- (roughly) that people didn't respond to McCullough and Minksy
- on TLMs the way the responded to Putnam on rocks.
-
- I do not think your "point" is worth further discussion.
-
- > ... Another factor, which I think is significant,
- > though not sufficient, is that it was important to some people
- > that Putnam be wrong and not so important that you (and Minsky)
- > be wrong.
- >
- >Here is a list of people who have posted something on the subject "A
- >rock implements every FSA", in case it helps you to be somewhat more
- >specific than the usual "some people" generalizations.
-
- I take it that you'd prefer if I named names.
-
- No, take it that I would rather prefer that you discontinue your
- ridiculous generalizations.
- ... But why should
- I make it more of a personal dispute than it already is?
-
- Why stop when you are having fun? You started this, trying to
- show that some contributors to these newsgroups are "in the grips
- of some ideology". Either go all the way, or back off.
-
- Anyway, since you obviously have access to all the postings, why
- don't you tell us how many of these people agreed with Putnam?
-
- Now, how many posted disagreements with Daryl's claims about the
- complexity of, and mappings involving, the data in the TLM?
-
- Also, I'd still be interested on how many attacked the TT in
- the "TT is a scientific criterion" thread (or any other recent
- TT thread).
-
- No, thank you. I have nothing to prove. If you do, feel free to
- fetch the archives from nexus.yorku.ca and read through them. For
- my part, I will ignore anything else you post on this topic.
-
- cheers. oz
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