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In a message dated 6/6/2002 4:18:46 PM Central Daylight Time, maikxlx@gmail.com writes:Is it your feeling that there is no possibility of demonstrating Au contraire, mon cher. Given an unambiguous syntactic structure and an unambiguous semantic theory, the problem of making an algorithm to go from one to the other is, if not trivial, at least not likely to take very long. It is getting the givens that is the pisser -- especially the second one. I have no idea what the general theory of semantic logical representations should be like, but I know a good one when I see it (actually, that is not true-- I know a bad one when I see it and the rest get gentleman passes). |