Argument

It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances’

P1: If each man had a definite set of rules that conducts his life, he would be not better than a machine
P2: There are no such rules, so men cannot be machines
C: Man is not machine

Turing Response

  • Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle
  • Humans could instead of being governed by normative laws (stop at red lights) are guided by a set of discrete laws of behavior that regulate his life