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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Commitment to logic; was ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.012445.27907@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov18.042158.17562@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov18.170839.29220@psych.toronto.edu> <Bxxx4o.Hqq@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:24:45 GMT
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- In article <Bxxx4o.Hqq@acsu.buffalo.edu> rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski) writes:
- >christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
- >
- >>The issue to which I was alluding was not whether natural language could
- >>ultimately be reduced to *some* logic. In fact I hope it can because, under
- >>at least one interpretation ofthe problem, the question amounts to whether
- >>there can be a theory of language at all.
- >
- > I think that LOGIC will be reduced to a natural language.
- >
- > But what do I know?
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- I'm not sure. What do you know? Why would one *want* to "reduce" logic
- to natural language. One is patently rigorous, the other is not. We
- usually want a rigorous explication of that which is perplexing. Is
- your comment a joke, a exercise in obscurantism, an omnidirectional
- blast at science, or an actual contribution? Please tell us.
-
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- Christopher D. Green christo@psych.toronto.edu
- Psychology Department cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
- University of Toronto
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