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  1. Xref: sparky comp.ai.philosophy:7404 sci.philosophy.tech:4979 sci.logic:2639
  2. Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.logic
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!news.smith.edu!orourke
  4. From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
  5. Subject: Searle on syntax mirroring semantics
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.121155.24448@sophia.smith.edu>
  7. Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
  8. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:11:55 GMT
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  11. Can anyone explain this sentence to me?  It is on p.203 of "The
  12. Rediscovery of the Mind" by John Searle.
  13.  
  14.     The development of proof theory showed that within certain
  15.     well-known limits the semantic relations between propositions
  16.     can be entirely mirrored by the syntactic relations between
  17.     the sentences that express those propositions.
  18.