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    It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.


    — John Searle

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    John Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and subsequently became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy. Functionalists claim that consciousness can be defined as a set of informational processes inside the brain. Searle did not consider Derrida's approach legitimate philosophy or even intelligible writing.

    Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language philosophy of mind and social philosophy he began teaching at Berkeley in 1959. Among his notable concepts is the "Chinese room" argument against "strong" artificial intelligence.

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