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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: sonja, etc.
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- [Avery Andrews 920813]
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- We should probably wait until Bill has spent some time with the Chapman book
- before saying much about it, but I'll say now that he's perfectly aware of
- the nature of the hyphenated routine names in the description of Sonja.
- One of the motives of the work was to produce a complete system where notions
- of meaning and references were grounded in actual activity, rather than
- being just empty `semantic markerese' (typeface-change semantics). I think
- anybody who studies the book will quickly perceive that Chapman doesn't
- miss much.
-
- As to why he doesn't emphasise the role of control, I think it's quite
- possible that he doesn't know about the messes that psychology has gotten
- itself into, & wouldn't care if he did.
-
- Avery Andrews
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