Re: cudiments

From: patty (pattyNO_at_SPAMicyberspace.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:16:22 GMT

Lester Zick wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:06:06 GMT, patty <pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net>
> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
>
>>Lester Zick wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:54:52 GMT, patty <pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net>
>>>in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>David Longley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"AI", as conventionally understood, is as chimerical as "the mind", and
>>>>>both are just variants or aspects of the same misunderstanding.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No, that is not true. "Intelligence" is as chimerical as "mind". "AI"
>>>>names a specific, yet elusive, technological objective. Most
>>>>researchers working towards that elusive objective have a clear
>>>>understanding of what they are pursuing. It is *you* who are misusing
>>>>the word "AI".
>>>
>>>
>>>What you say is largely true, patty, but I think you'll ultimately
>>>find that all paths to intelligence lead through a totally mysterious
>>>something which for lack of any other cudiment we shall call M.
>>>
>>>Regards - Lester
>>
>>You keep abusing my word, you pervert. A cudiment is *not* an intension.
>
>
> Well, patty, since neither of us knows what a cudiment or an intension
> is for sure, I reckon I'll just have to keep using both terms until we
> find out exactly what they are, at which point we can decide what they
> mean or don't mean in relation to each other.
>
> Regards - Lester

Lester, there is not authority for a newly coined word *except* its
usage. So for "cudiment" where do you expect that we could ever "find
out exactly what" it means? "Intension" is an old term that had
different meanings in different contexts. That it has been abused in
this forum is no reason not to continue using it correctly in those
contexts. Sometimes i feel you are a linguistic disestablishmentarian
and almost an anarchist. But i love this game of bottling these glass
beads and casting them upon the ocean, perchance to communicate, far too
much to collaborate with you on its decay.

patty

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