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Quote: if define 'plus' by a machine or program, it could be 'quus' due to instruction definition, finiteness, or machine malfunction
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First, even if I say that the machine … coding devices) that tell me how to interpret … accordance with the chosen code, by the machine. … Waiving this problem, there are two others … I cannot really insist that the values of … finitely many numbers as input and yielding only … Second, in practice it hardly is likely that … machine … Actual machines can malfunction … How is it determined when a malfunction occurs? … [p. 35] Given the program, once again the physical … skeptic can concentrate his objections on the program. … Google-1 Google-2
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