In message <[email protected]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes: >On 30 Dec 2008 at 11:57, Zefram wrote:
>Steven Pinker (who's been cited on this list before) had an >interesting discussion in his book "The Stuff of Thought" about >whether a thing referred to by a word in human language preserves its >basic nature if the underlying technical definition changes, [...] An interesting pursuit of the mind. But given that "a computer" went from being a (semi-)autistic homonuculus to a "respectable profession for a young woman" to huge military monsters and now 'are in everything', I think we can leave it out of this discussion :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
