[SCL] Metalinguistic constructs

Bill Andersen andersen at ontologyworks.com
Fri Dec 20 13:48:39 CST 2002


On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 14:44 US/Eastern, Chris Menzel wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:36:06PM -0500, Bill Andersen wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 14:16 US/Eastern, Chris Menzel wrote:
>>>
>>> Thus, "formula", "name", and "comment" all take names of syntactic
>>> thingies in the language as their values.
>>
>> Chris is right here of course.
>
> Except I meant "arguments" instead of "values".

But the values are linguistic objects as well no?  The arguments denote 
those things.  Like:

   (name 'fred)

says that fred is a name.

   .bill




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