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Article #357Re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym
From: Jeff Lansing
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:48
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:48
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In article <1992Nov17.092016.28202@news.unige.ch> swann@divsun.unige.ch (SWANN Philip) writes: > >... More concretely, for any pair of human language >expressions that you claim to be synonymous in a given context, I >claim that I can produce another context in which they are not >synonymous. > I think that is exactly the purpose of synonymy, to pick out those contexts in which the two expressions ``mean the same''. But why do we care about those contexts? Because they tell us what the ``theme'' or ``point'' of what that particular context is. Jeff Lansing
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!network.ucsd.edu!bend!lansing From: lansing@bend.ucsd.edu (Jeff Lansing) Newsgroups: sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.lang Subject: Re: Theories of meaning not relying solely on sym Date: 24 Nov 1992 02:48:48 GMT Organization: Linguistics Department, UCSD Lines: 13 Message-ID: <1es56gINNq0h@network.ucsd.edu> References: <1992Nov16.000040.19912@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov16.120727.17500@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov17.092016.28202@news.unige.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: bend.ucsd.edu