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Logic 77

machine differs from any other machine merely in working upon an excessively simple principle which is applied in a manifold and complex way instead of upon an occult principle applied in a monotonous way.
If anybody wishes me to acknowledge that a logical machine reasons no more than any other machine I do not know why I should not gratify him.
That seems to me a matter of words.
The result which the logical machine turns out has a relation to the data with thich it was fed which relaion may be considered from the point of view whether the former could be false so long as the latter are true.
That is all there is in the facts of the case and whether it is called reasoning or not I do not care.
All that I insist upon is that in luke manner a man may be regarded as a machine which turns out let us say a written sentence expressing a conclusion the man-machine having

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