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Thinking And Machines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

H. R. T. Roberts
H. R. T. Roberts
Affiliation:
Officers' Mess, Indian Air Force Station, Tambaram, South India.
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Extract

Professors A. D. Ritchie (Philosophy, January 1957) and F. H. George (Philosophy, April 1957) both miss the question: What is the use of saying that machines think? Does the extension in the use of the word “think” to cover the complicated activity of modern machines (actual or possible in theory) enable us to explain better the nature of such activity? Extensions in usage are common and necessary in science.

Type
Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 33 , Issue 126 , July 1958 , pp. 356
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1958

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References

1 S. Toulmin, Philosophy of Science, p. 22.