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<forgot to copy this to the list> Since I like lateral thinking, I would compare the problem you describe to what can be learned from Kinesics (science of body language) and in Kinesics there is the concept of there being no such thing as body movement completely devoid of meaning (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesics , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Birdwhistell ). I would apply this as being parallel to your effort to remove the semantic restrictions from the syntax to gain a contextless grammar by postulating that it cannot be done. There is always going to be some meaning encapsulated in the context. If the grammar is defined in such a way that there is no context allowed, then it still won't stop people reading meaning into the context, I suggest. On a similar note: Is there a parallel science to that of Kinesics which can stretch to helping the analysis of the semantics meanings implied accidentally or intentionally in the syntactic structure of XML? The study of the 'body language' of XML grammars and instances of grammars. Another note: Isn't it true that a statement can only be absolutely true or false when the context is considered? I can say the shortest path between two points is a straight line but it is true in the context of Euclidean geometry but not in all geometries. I can say the sky is blue and that is true in some contexts but in others the sky is green (e.g. when describing a given painting, say). Even 1 + 1 = 2 is only true in some contexts. To be able to make a statement without the need for also stating its context (or assuming a context) is perhaps impossible, philosophically speaking. Cheers Steve ---- Stephen D Green ---- Stephen D Green On 20 April 2015 at 23:05, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
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