My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
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Berkeley became a left-wing community as a result of the '60s. The university is about the same as it was before politically. But the city is much more to the left than it was prior to all of this.John Searle
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
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There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
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Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
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