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Wittgenstein on language and artificial intelligence: The Chinese-room thought experiment revisited

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Obermeier, K.K. Wittgenstein on language and artificial intelligence: The Chinese-room thought experiment revisited. Synthese 56, 339–349 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485470

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