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>From: gomez@barros.cs.ucf.edu (Fernando Gomez)
Subject: Re: Grounding and Symbols
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 02:47:26 GMT

Certainly, your term "bochelor" is meaningless, while "bachelor"
is meaningfull. The fact that "bachelor" refers to real-world
knowledge does not imply that is grounded. Does it follow that
"unicorn" is not grounded? It seems that you are implying that
every concept that denotes a non-empty set of individuals  is
grounded. Then, the groundeness of the term comes from its
denotation.  But, if meaning is reduced to denotation then
every computer program is grounded. 

Fernando Gomez
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