tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 21 08:43:54 1998
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Re: ...beings capable of using language...
Nathan Grange wrote:
>> From: "Qermaq" <[email protected]>
>> [...]
>> BEING: The language-use-capable subject must be a 'being'. This is rather
>> trivial at this point; in fact, most would agree that an entity which is
>> capable of using a language as I have defined it would be fairly referred to
>> as a 'being'.
>
>This is interesting.., no one has emphasised this word before, and it
>may make a difference...surely no one would accuse a robot or a
>computer of fullfilling the requirements for the word 'being'. Would
>(for example,) Data be considered a being??? I feel that we should
>examine this word....
Counterpoint: {bIQDep} "fish"
A "being" apparently doesn't have to be sentient or capable of language.
-- ghunchu'wI'