Logical semantics

Roger Vergauwen
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The distinction between the syntax and semantics of any language in general, and any formal (logical) language in particular, is fundamentally a distinction between two ways of talking about the same language. Semiotics, which considers languages as systems of symbols or signs distinguishes three different functions which these signs may have, or three kinds of relations in which these symbols may enter.

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