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- From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee)
- Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:14:50 GMT
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- Michael Zeleny (zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote:
- :
- : GL:
- : >... 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?
- :
- : Invariance under selection of specific syntax. Explanation of
- : syntactical rules. That, and bivalence. In short, truth. ...
-
- Justifying a semantic account of paraphrase by appeal to some need
- felt need to give an account of truth is circular. "Explanation of
- syntactical rules" sounds nice, except that no syntactical rule of any
- natural language has ever been explained semantically, and there is no
- reason to think one ever will.
-
- (I'm reading this in sci.lang, but I'm beginning to suspect you do
- not intend what you are saying to have any relevance to natural
- language. If not, think about editing your newgroups line.)
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