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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Semantic Ether
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Date: 15 Jan 92 04:36:11 GMT
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In article <kn6cvtINN188@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> 
silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:

> Not only as an intermittent reader of this group, but also as
> a non-logician/non-mathematician, I cannot put this question
> in the form of quantifiers and categories which would indicate
> fluency in the MZ et al. debate.  HOWEVER, this qualitative
> query occurs to me:  Is MZ's position equivalent to postulating
> a kind of "semantic ether" analogous to the "ether" whose existence
> was disproved by the Michelson-Morley experiment?

Close, but no cigar.  My position entails inferring (not merely
postulating) an ontology of abstract entities, like truth-values, sets,
categories, propositions, and concepts.  Plato, Frege, Church, and Popper
would be happy to tell you more about this Third Realm (compare the
ontological strata of material objects and psychological processes).

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