RE: virus: MS Flip Software Price

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:29:39 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, David McFadzean wrote:

> OK, how about this for the new word:
>
> parational (from Greek para- akin; Latin rationalis)
> adj. 1. agreeable or in accordance to reason, though
> not necessarily through an act of reasoning.
>
> So computers, animals, and other intentional agents
> behave in a parational manner if and only if they
> behave in such a way that it seems as if they are
> thinking in a logical manner.

Very good.

-Prof. Tim (still catching up)