Re: String and Language


Jan Burse wrote:
John Jones wrote:

> Nevertheless, there is
> no relationship between a string and the meaning that it presents: the
> consensus maps the revealed meaning of the string to the elements in
> the string - this mapping does not constitute a relationship between
> the string and its meaning. This 'mapping' demonstrates the arbitrary
> nature of rule-following of a consensual majority.

The meaning of a string is not fully
arbitrarly revealed.

The tokens also carry grammatical
information which is need to
reveal the meaning of a string.

Here is a simple example:
Aluminum multicolored anodized

If multicolored is used as an
adverb in this sentence, then
it modifies the verb anodized,
otherwise, if it is used as a
an adjectiv in this sentence,
then it modifies the noun aluminum.

The context of the sentence
may reveal the appropriate
resolution. But the resolution
is not totally arbirary, its
frame by the particular
grammar of the text.

There are simple tests for
the grammatical information that
a token carries. For example
probing with a sentence. Thus,
for a token X, if one can form
a sentence:

I see a X.

Its probaly a noun, or if you
one can form a sentence:

I see him X.

Its probably a verb. Try it out
for yourself.

Bye

Strawson dealt the death-blow to Russels predicate logic, but did not
put it very well. A sentence first of all I would say has sense mapped
to it, a sentence does not reveal sense. Accordingly, an isolated
sentence may have many interpretations, but interpretation is not the
way we speak and talk. I am very much doubtful that any linguistic
logic will ever get over this hurdle.

.

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