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I am sure that Professor Jefferson does not wish to adopt the extreme and solipsist point of view. Probably he would be quite willing to accept the imitation game as a test. The game (with the player B omitted) is frequently used in practice under the name of viva voce to discover whether some one really understands something or has «learnt it parrot fashion». Let us listen in to a part of such a viva voce:

Interrogator: In the first line of your sonnet which reads «Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day», would not «a spring day» do as well or better?

Witness: It wouldn’t scan.

Interrogator: How about «a winter’s day»? That would scan all right.

Witness: Yes, but nobody wants to be compared to a winter’s day.

Interrogator: Would you say Mr. Pickwick reminded you of Christmas?

Witness: In a way.

Interrogator: Yet Christmas is a winter’s day, and I do not think Mr. Pickwick would mind the comparison.

Witness: I don’t think you’re serious. By a winter’s day one means a typical winter’s day, rather than a special one like Christmas.

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