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- From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee)
- Subject: Re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:57:41 GMT
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- Michael Zeleny (zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote:
- : In article <28179@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- : cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
- :
- : >In article <1992Nov13.100925.2924@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- : >lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:
- :
- : GL:
- : >>Paraphrases are expressions that mean the
- : >>same thing, so there must be a thing that they mean, and once we've
- : >>found it, we'll know why they are paraphrases.
- :
- : CM:
- : >Reification rides again! Why must there be such a thing? Why could not
- : >paraphrases be identifiable simply by a certain kind of transformation
- : >capable of turning one into another?
- :
- : This is a bogus objection, Chris. ...
-
- I didn't see Chris's followup, so I'm taking this opportunity to
- agree with him. I was just kidding. "Mean the same thing" is
- just a manner of speaking, perhaps reflecting some folk theory
- which, however, we're under no obligation to accept.
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