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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: "revisiting"+false dichotomies ( Re: Rock n' Refe
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Date: 13 Apr 92 05:18:31 GMT
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In article <kuhekbINNdbc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> 
silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:

ES:
> In essence you state the equivalent of the following, I believe:
>
> 1) (paraphrase of an MZ proposition)
> A finite physical system embodying "denotational links" can embody such
> links only by virtue of "external causal factors".
>
> 1-b (paraphrase of MZ interpretation of 1)
> Proposition 1) is not consistent with the notion that a finite physical system
> can have UNTO ITSELF complete referential competence.
>
> 2) (paraphrase of the dual MZ proposition )
>    If , in a finite physical system, connotative references
>    ( viz. meaning-laden links) exist, then,
>    there is a contradiction "because"
> 2b:   logically, meaning must depend on transfinite realms.

You completely misunderstand the argument.  Try reading it again, using a
dictionary next time.  Good luck.


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