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In article <1992Nov18.042158.17562@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>In article <1992Nov17.214321.18500@psych.toronto.edu>
>christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>
>>>Indeed.  Logical reasoning tells me that if I walk out in front of a bus,
>>>I'll get run over.  Does he mean that in the Far East this doesn't hold?
>
>CG:
>>LOGIC tells you this?!?!? Astounding! I'd love to see that logic. I've
>>always thought this was contingent; true, but contingent. The things
>>you learn on the net...
>
>Some people are vitalists; some are physicalists; a few gentle souls
>are semanticalists.  Michael is a logicist, -- theirs is an ancient
>and venerable breed, and I fail to see any egregious fault with the
>views they espouse.  Read more Spinoza, Chris.
>
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. The problem is that the question
of whether one gets run over if one steps in from of a bus, cannot be
answered a priori, and therefore is not a logical truth (at least it can't
be derived out of any of our present logics). Tally-ho!


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