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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: syntax and semantics
Message-ID: <1992Apr4.061244.767@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1992Apr03.164328.8107@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
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>Searle seems to use "syntactic" to mean "formal", or "manipulating...
>symbols [with] precisely stated rules."  "Semantics" he seems to equate

 Would that Searle were that precise in his use of "syntactic".  But he
also says that every thing a computer can do is syntactic, and this
therefore includes computing averages and correlations of very imprecise
floating point information.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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