Fill in the Blank

[John Voiklis]

"Idea" was my original vote. While all the terms offered were abtractions
of one sort or another, the word "idea," like the word music, is an
abstract term that covers all of them.

Best--J

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Alan Kay wrote:

> ... like "Idea" ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
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>
> At 1:43 PM -0700 6/9/02, John Steinmetz wrote:
> >"The music is not in the piano" works because a piano is a
> >music-specific device. (It also works because it's obvious to almost
> >everybody where the music must be if it's not in the piano.) The
> >blank in the phrase about the computer can't be filled so easily
> >because it is a nonspecific device, capable of simulating other
> >devices of many kinds, and additionally capable of new activities
> >still un- or under-developed.
> >
> >So no single word will fill the blank in that computer phrase,
> >unless it is a word of a different order.
> >
> >	John
>
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