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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: "grounded syntax" and the semantic bootstrap
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In article <1991Dec13.013107.6496@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
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MZ:
   A less trivial semantic convention may be estabilished by using the Ariadne
   technique: connect each name-token to its denotation with a thin thread of
   ballistic nylon.  If you wish to determine the denotation, just follow the
   line.
   

 The physical thread from the syntactic poker chip to the "meaning"
 IS not required, IF you admit of a common, hardwired , 
 symbol-meaning core (fundamental , hardwired symbol/interpretation
 machinery in the brain) upon which other (symbol,meaning) structures
 are elaborated.  Any sort of recursion/transcendance problems are
 trapped, viciated, accomodated by this physical fact re: human brains.


 


