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And Rosta scripsit: > However, we may mean different things by FOPL, especially in the > context of loglanging. I understand it to be the minimal syntax of > propositional meaning. I expect others understand it to be a fairly > standardized combinatorics of symbols supplemented by a body of > interpretation rules. These different understandings may well give > different answers in edge cases such as the one under discussion. In addition, as has been painfully established, what you mean by "syntax" is not quite what the rest of us mean by the term. (I note that not all linguists agree with the autonomous-syntax view you have been presenting as How Language Works.) -- The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan <cowan@hidden.email> free-range chickens (except they have http://www.ccil.org/~cowan teeth, arms instead of wings, and dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso