Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
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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.
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
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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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