mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) (11/21/85)
In article <27500160@ISM780B.UUCP> jim@ISM780B.UUCP writes: >>"Let the individual internalize all of these elements of the system. >>He memorizes the rules in the ledger and the data banks of Chinese >>symbols, and he does all the calculations in his head. The individual >>then incorporates the entire system. There isn't anything at all to >>the system that he does not encompass. We can even get rid of the >>room and suppose he works outdoors. All the same, he understands >>nothing of the Chinese, and a fortiori neither does the system, >>because there isn't anything in the system that isn't in him." [Searles] >This seems to me to be patently false, since this is precisely what one >does when one learns Chinese. Oh really? How do you know? Having withstood six years of French, I can attest to the fact that memorizing the Rules Of French doesn't have you understanding French. Charley Wingate