Re: Folk Theories of Meaning

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From: Greg Lee
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:14

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

Justifying a semantic account of paraphrase by appeal to some need
felt need to give an account of truth is circular.  "Explanation of
syntactical rules" sounds nice, except that no syntactical rule of any
natural language has ever been explained semantically, and there is no
reason to think one ever will.

(I'm reading this in sci.lang, but I'm beginning to suspect you do
not intend what you are saying to have any relevance to natural
language.  If not, think about editing your newgroups line.)

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