From: Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19:3 (1996). 530-532
... the problem of formalizing the distinction between "kooky facts" and "computationally relevant ones" (p.145); "just the problem of nondemonstrative inference" (p.146); "the problem of formalizing our intuitions about inductive relevance" (p.148). Fodor concludes that "the frame problem is too important to leave it to the hackers" (p.148), and Hayes retorts that "Fodor doesn't know the frame problem from a bunch of bananas" (Hayes 1987: 132).
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