Going to this today

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http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/sem_html/nat.html

Professor John Searle
Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language
University of California, Berkeley

'The Future of Philosophy'

Inaugurating the School of
Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Tuesday, 10th December, 2002
5.15pm, Lecture Theatre B, David Hume Lecture Theatres

Comments

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

John Searle's left foot cannot understand English. A small cube of flesh from John Searle's diced brain cannot understand English. John Searle's severed ears cannot understand English. John Searle's pre-frontal lobe cannot understand English. John Searle's right testicle cannot understand English. Iterating over every small piece of John Searle's body, we see that no small part of the complex biological system known as "John Searle" can actually understand English. Therefore John Searle cannot understand English, and there's no point going to listen to him give a lecture. QED.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Since when has a lecturer been required to understand anything? ;)