NICK@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Nick Papadakis) (05/27/88)
Date: Tue, 10 May 88 14:56 EDT From: hayes.pa@Xerox.COM Subject: Re: AIList V6 #98 - Philosophy In-reply-to: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws <AIList-REQUEST@SRI.COM>'s message of Mon, 9 May 88 00:25 PDT To: AIList@SRI.COM Resent-Date: Wed, 11 May 88 12:09 EDT Resent-From: Ken Laws <LAWS@KL.SRI.COM> Resent-To: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Nancyk has made a valuable contribution to the debate about logic and AI, raising the discussion to a new level. Of course, once one sees that to believe that ( for example ) if P and Q are both true, then P&Q is true, is merely an arifact of concealed organismal Anthropology, a relic of bougeois ideology, the whole matter becomes much clearer. We who have thought that psychology might be relevant to AI have missed the point: of course, political science - specifically, Marxist political science - is the key to making progress. Let us all properly understand the difference between the Organismus-Umwelt Zusammenhang and the Mensch-Umwelt Zusammenhang, and let our science take sides with the working people, and we will be in a wholly new area. And I expect Gilbert will be happier. Thanks, Nancy. Pat Hayes