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From article <6031@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, (Greg Lee):
> From article <16577@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>, (Mike Coffin):
>> ... Searle's only response to this is that it's "true by
>>definition" (what definition?) or "rather obvious" (to whom?). ...
> 
> Perhaps he has more of a response than that.  He has an argument
> that seems to be intended to bear on this point, which begins:
> "As with any logical truth, one can quickly see that it is true,
> ...

You are right, of course.  I intended to include a paragraph on
this argument but somehow forgot.  As you point out, he "proves"---if
one uses the term very loosely---that syntax and semantics are
different.  He doesn't prove that semantics cannot be produced by,
or arise from, syntax.

Thanks for the correction.



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