[lit-ideas] Re: What is a computer program?
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:21:33 -0500
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
: Aren't there two answers to this? One legal and one ontological?
:
: Julie Krueger
I don't think so. Legal questions involve the law, but the question
that I am concerned with involves "facts." The question of what the
law is is something that lawyers supposedly know something about, the
question of what a computer program is---and other questions of
fact---are not matters that lie within the special competency of
lawyers.
On the other hand, I don't think that I am raising an ontological
question or, more precisely, I don't think that an answer in terms
of ontology will help me.
I think the question is more like: "How should lawyers and others
who have never written a computer program think about computer
programs?" So I think that the question is more about metaphors
than being.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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