[Wittrs] Re: Who lost to Deep Blue?
- From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Fri, 3/19/10, jrstern <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you show us who ever said syntax *is* either
> constitutive or sufficient for semantics?
Stuart seems to think it is.
Searle gives us these three axioms:
A1) Programs are formal (syntactic).
A2) Minds have mental contents (semantics).
A3) Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics.
It follows from these three axioms that:
C1) Programs are neither constitutive of nor sufficient for minds.
Stuart doesn't like C1 and A1 and A2 look bullet-proof so he disputes A3.
But I consider A3 no less bullet-proof than A1 or A2.
-gts
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