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>From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: The Systems Reply I
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Date: 21 Mar 92 15:36:00 GMT
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christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:

> Its one thing to say, 'Gee, I don't really understand the difference
> between syntax and semantics.  Perhaps I better go find out about it
> if I'm to understand Searle's argument.'  It's quite another to say, as
> many on this group seem to say (and I'm *not* specifically including
> Minsky -- who got me started on this -- among these), 'This
> sytax/semantics stuff isn't very clear to me. Therefore it must be a
> lot of pseudo-intellectual mumbo-jumbo.' That just sheer
> anti-intellectualism.

There is a third possibility, which is : the distinction between syntax
and semantics is clear, and yet the way Searle is using the concepts is
pseudo-intellectual mumbo-jumbo.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY


