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Re:Apple CarPlay by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @08:42AM (#7340064)
Products do not have purposes. Eyes can be for seeing, but can also be for eating or throwing at things. Atoms don't have tiny XML tags describing the purpose of an object they're part of. It's the user who attributes purpose to a tool.

You can't say "brain evolved to do X", you can at best say "brain is well suited to do X".

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Re:Apple CarPlay by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @06:13AM (#7346349)
You are trying to make it harder to communicate for no benefit. The distinction you're advocating is not useful, to anyone. But the idea "the purpose of eyes is seeing" is quite productive, and faultlessly grounded in reality.
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