# KEHOME/knowledge/ExamplesBookHierarchy/gd.html
# 1999/6/30
# new syntax Sep/29/2002
# Keith Devlin
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/ Goodbye, Descartes
Goodbye, Descartes
/ Preface
/ 1 Patterns of Mind
// We all do it
// Patterns of thought
// Logic and language
// The language wall
// The logic wall
// Roger: the irrational man of logic
// Against all odds
// The moral of the lost car keys
/ 2 A Passion for Order
// The square on the hypotenuse
// The arrow and the tortoise
// Bricks in a building
// The first and the second
// The all and the some
// The fine print
/ 3 The Laws of Thought
// Mathematical logic -- the very idea
// Dialectica, dialectica
// The logic of William Ockham and Pseudo-Scot
// Adolescence, English puns, and a loss of favor
// The logic of Leibniz
// The calm before the storm
// Euclid falters and axiomatic logic comes back into favor
// Algebra spreads its wings
/ 4 From Symbols to Silicon
// Symbols of the mind
// The Boolean bandwagon
// Splitting the logical atom
// The golden age
// Language stripped to the bone
// Searching for meaning
// The computational mind of A. M. Turing
// Logic in silicon
// Shadows of a wheel
/ 5 The Science of Language
// A way with words
// What is linguistics?
// A new science is born
// The American way
// Myths of Hopi time and Eskimo snow
// Too many sentences
/ 6 Language in the Mind
// The revolution by the Charles River
// The linguistic patterns Chomsky wove
// How can children learn language so easily?
// The language instinct
// Things your teacher got wrong
// The linguistic patterns shared by all mankind
/ 7 Machines That Think
// Smart machines?
// Alan Turing's IQ test for computers
// The computer that proved theorems
// How to get a computer to act smart
// Machines that answer back
// Bursting bubbles
// Silicon experts
// Reasons of the heart
/ 8 Communication Is the Key
// Beyond Chomsky
// Photocopy machines and air-traffic control
// The meaning of it all
// How big is big?
// A failure to communicate
// Coming to terms with the situation
/ 9 Verbal Tangos
// Er, umm, maybe, all right then
// The fine power of a culture
// But you know what I mean?
// The elephant's trunk
// Conversation -- from lost art to new science
// The logic of conversation
// The hidden meanings in what we say
// Building on common ground
// Steps in the verbal tango
// Can there be an algebra of conversation?
/ 10 The Cheshire Cat's Grin
// The informational stance
// The Cheshire Cat's grin
// Acting according to type
// It's common knowledge
// The Liar Paradox
/ 11 Goodbye, Descartes
// Leaving the omega
// Beyond logic
// The puzzle of rationality
// Understanding language
// Goodbye, Descartes
// Plato's cave
// Soft mathematics
// What is understanding?
// The soft mathematician's toolbox
/ Selected Further Reading
/ Index
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