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  4. From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee)
  5. Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning (was re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym)
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  12. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:13:57 GMT
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  14.  
  15. Michael Zeleny (zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote:
  16. : In article <1992Nov16.125741.22619@news.Hawaii.Edu> 
  17. : GL:
  18. : >I didn't see Chris's followup, so I'm taking this opportunity to
  19. : >agree with him.  I was just kidding.  "Mean the same thing" is
  20. : >just a manner of speaking, perhaps reflecting some folk theory
  21. : >which, however, we're under no obligation to accept.
  22. : 
  23. : Who's that "we", kemosabe?
  24.  
  25. Rational discussants.
  26.  
  27. : If you don't feel that being bound by logic is a *moral* obligation, ...
  28.  
  29. I think logic is wonderful.  Not all logic is semantic -- logic may be
  30. done syntactically.  Having shown that two sentences imply each other
  31. in some logical syntax, what is gained except confusion by proceeding
  32. to associate some esoteric meaning-thing with them both?
  33.  
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