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There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr.
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The statement firmly rejects any comparison between how a chess player operates and how Mr. [name omitted]’s calculating machine operates. It treats them as fundamentally different kinds of operation, not merely different versions of the same process.
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- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
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