Full Idea
Computers have a built-in language, but not a language that contains quantifiers (that is, the words "all" and "some"). …So generalizations (containing "all") cannot ever be stated in machine language.
Gist of Idea
No machine language can express generalisations
Source
Hilary Putnam (What is innate and why [1980], p.408)
Book Reference
'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.408
A Reaction
Computers are too sophisticated to need quantification (which is crude). Computers can work with very precise and complex specifications of the domain of a given variable.
Related Idea
Idea 11121 Language of thought has subject/predicate form and includes logical devices [Margolis/Laurence]