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In article <1992Nov17.131357.12605@news.Hawaii.Edu> 
lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:

>Michael Zeleny (zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote:

>>lee@Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:

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.

MZ:
>>Who's that "we", kemosabe?

GL:
>Rational discussants.

What mandate entitles you to represent them in this categorical manner?

MZ:
>>If you don't feel that being bound by logic is a *moral* obligation, ...

GL:
>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?

Invariance under selection of specific syntax. Explanation of
syntactical rules.  That, and bivalence.  In short, truth.  I shall
assume that you have read Tarski, so I will omit the motivational
details.

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."