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- From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
- Subject: Re: Of idiots and fools and tools (was: Re: Searle's World and Computers)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:13:35 GMT
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- Joke's heart is likely pure as the snow now drifting past my window,
- but his attempt to avoid the pains of political incorrectness founders
- on a point of ancient-Greek culture: the Athenians and their friends
- viewed "idiots" -- i.e., loners -- as bad folk; as anti-community; as
- willing disdainers of the core of value. In short, they viewed them
- as egregious; as idiots.
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