Re: Commitment to logic; was ...

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From: Christopher Green
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:24

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In article <Bxxx4o.Hqq@acsu.buffalo.edu> rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski) writes:
>christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>	I think that LOGIC will be reduced to a natural language. 
>
>	But what do I know?

I'm not sure. What do you know? Why would one *want* to "reduce" logic
to natural language. One is patently rigorous, the other is not. We 
usually want a rigorous explication of that which is perplexing. Is
your comment a joke, a exercise in obscurantism, an omnidirectional
blast at science, or an actual contribution? Please tell us.

-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

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