[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

Gordon Swobe gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 9 21:00:41 UTC 2009


--- On Wed, 12/9/09, Alfio Puglisi <alfio.puglisi at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Premise A1: Programs are formal (syntactic).
>> Premise A2: Minds have mental contents (semantics).
>> Premise A3: Syntax is neither constitutive of nor
>> sufficient for semantics

> A question, how is semantics defined in this context? 

By "having semantics" Searle means not only the ability to have conscious understanding of the meanings of words or symbols (as in the meanings of his Chinese symbols) but also the ability to have any conscious awareness of any thing or idea, real or imaginary. In this sense "semantics" equals "mental contents".

-gts



      



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