tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 11 00:26:50 1998
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Re: ...beings capable of using language...
- From: "Nathan Grange" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ...beings capable of using language...
- Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 19:32:18 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- Priority: normal
> Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:22:20 -0700 (PDT)
> Reply-to: [email protected]
> From: TPO <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: ...beings capable of using language...
> Nathan wrote:
> >>Qermaq wrote:
> >>...
> >> 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....
>
> hmm, This IS interesting. I drew attention to "being" a few days ago. :P
>
>
> DloraH
>
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