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Article #62Re: Natural Kinds (was re: Are all crows black?)
From: Charles R. Martin
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 05:03
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 05:03
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In article <1992Nov2.191722.25935@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers) writes:
>Isn't it a pity, though, that favorite assumptions of your CS pals have
>absolutely no bearing on the universe which they inhabit! As if one needed
>any more proof that Computer "Science" isn't... would anyone care to recall
>Socrates' comparison of rhetoric to cookery?
I guess if you're going to raise this again, Michael, I'll have to ask
again what it is about Turing's work that makes it not "computer
science" -- or what it is about Chaitin's work that makes it
mathematics.
"No! My mommy is not ugly so!"
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
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"Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably. Amen." -- Rob T
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