Re: Ur languages and sign language

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:42:52 -0500


IMO Julian Lord makes soome excellent points, but

> ... Linguistics
> can provide no testable and therefore "scientific" model, because
> language and meta-language (which is used to discuss language)
> share many common features, which are impossible to analyse
> because of their shared inherently linguistic nature.

Sorry, that's a fallacy. It's quite possible to have a language be its o= wn
meta-language and do valid reasoning in it. That's precisely how you get=

to Godel's Theorem.

Andrew

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