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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.lang,sci.philosophy.meta
- Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.172125.17543@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:21:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov17.172125.17543
- References: <1992Nov16.122343.17501@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov17.131357.12605@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.131357.12605@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:
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- >Michael Zeleny (zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote:
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- >>lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:
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- GL:
- >>>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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- MZ:
- >>Who's that "we", kemosabe?
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- GL:
- >Rational discussants.
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- What mandate entitles you to represent them in this categorical manner?
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- MZ:
- >>If you don't feel that being bound by logic is a *moral* obligation, ...
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- GL:
- >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?
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- Invariance under selection of specific syntax. Explanation of
- syntactical rules. That, and bivalence. In short, truth. I shall
- assume that you have read Tarski, so I will omit the motivational
- details.
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- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-