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  1. Xref: sparky sci.cognitive:755 sci.philosophy.tech:4233 sci.lang:8166
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!network.ucsd.edu!bend!lansing
  3. From: lansing@bend.ucsd.edu (Jeff Lansing)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.lang
  5. Subject: Re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym
  6. Date: 24 Nov 1992 02:48:48 GMT
  7. Organization: Linguistics Department, UCSD
  8. Lines: 13
  9. Message-ID: <1es56gINNq0h@network.ucsd.edu>
  10. References: <1992Nov16.000040.19912@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov16.120727.17500@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov17.092016.28202@news.unige.ch>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: bend.ucsd.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Nov17.092016.28202@news.unige.ch> swann@divsun.unige.ch (SWANN Philip) writes:
  14. >
  15. >... More concretely, for any pair of human language
  16. >expressions that you claim to be synonymous in a given context, I
  17. >claim that I can produce another context in which they are not
  18. >synonymous.
  19. >
  20. I think that is exactly the purpose of synonymy, to pick out those contexts
  21. in which the two expressions ``mean the same''. But why do we care about those
  22. contexts? Because they tell us what the ``theme'' or ``point'' of what
  23. that particular context is.
  24.  
  25. Jeff Lansing
  26.