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>From: ken@dakota (Kenny Chaffin)
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In article <1991Dec8.180409.6324@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>
>KAC:
>>	Right, but that is only a level of abstraction, a method of 
>>communicating, and a shared semantics. It has no bearing on the fact that
>>symbols either represent something or not.
>
>Symbolic representation presupposes semantics.
>
	Does it?
	Surely animal's have symbols in their minds of things, does this also
include having semantics? Bee's for instance communicate with one another 
through a dance. Do bees attach meaning to the various "words" and symbols in
their dance?
KAC


