Re: Folk Psychology and Social Convention

Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eray Ozkural  exa) writes:
> 
> >I think you should clarify what you mean by semantics not depending on
> >syntax, but on physical interfaces of the hardware. I recall similar
> >remarks by you a few times, but I never really understood what you
> >meant.
> 
> I have probably said that *meaning* depends on physical interactions.
> I don't know that I have said the same thing about "semantics".
> Granted, the notion of semantics is an attempt to get at meaning, but
> IMO it has not been very successful.

Semantics means the study or theory of meaning, so yes they are quite
related. Semantics of a sentence is meaning of a sentence, so when you
say something like "meaning depends on physical interactions" you join
the crowd of deep semantics theoreticians. :)

How is it that (the existence of) physical interactions are a
necessary and sufficient condition for the emergence of meaning?
Please analyze both.

Regards,

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Eray