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Article #267Re: Folk Theories of Meaning (was re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym)
From: Greg Lee
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:13
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:13
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Michael Zeleny (zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote: : In article <1992Nov16.125741.22619@news.Hawaii.Edu> : 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. : : Who's that "we", kemosabe? Rational discussants. : If you don't feel that being bound by logic is a *moral* obligation, ... 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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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.lang,sci.philosophy.meta Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!news.hawaii.edu!lee From: lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) Subject: Re: Folk Theories of Meaning (was re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym) Message-ID: <1992Nov17.131357.12605@news.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Organization: University of Hawaii X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Nov16.122343.17501@husc3.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:13:57 GMT Lines: 19