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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Fun with the semantics of paradox
Message-ID: <2996@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 89 17:41:33 GMT
References: <1883@buengc.BU.EDU>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <1883@buengc.BU.EDU>, by bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton):
" ...
" Hurm.  Astirottle rears his ponderous head.  He'd never read Rudy Carnap's
" eminently unreadable "The Logical Syntax of Language."  All sentences
" (ansatzen) can be reduced logically to their syntax; semantics are irrelevant
" to logic.

Hurm.  Where does Carnap say that??

" ...
" S <=> S
" 
" Such things are essential in developing the contextual meaning of words.

Do you mean that when people say things that appear paradoxical, they
are really inviting you to find an interpretation of their words that
relieves the paradox?  If so, I agree.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu