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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning (was re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152416.7665@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov16.122343.17501@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov17.131357.12605@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:24:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.131357.12605@news.Hawaii.Edu> lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:
- >
- >I think logic is wonderful. Not all logic is semantic -- logic may be
- >done syntactically. Having shown that two sentences imply each other
- >in some logical syntax, what is gained except confusion by proceeding
- >to associate some esoteric meaning-thing with them both?
- >
- A theory of language...? Sorry, just a thought. I guess notions such as
- language are passe out in the Pacific.
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