saturn comments on "What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts" - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 May 2009 07:24AM

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Comment author: saturn 18 May 2009 08:50:13PM *  6 points [-]

Syntax does rules necessarily broken imply meaninglessness not.

Comment author: Jack 19 May 2009 01:24:29AM 2 points [-]

Semantic rules aren't holding knives to the throat of meaning either.

So yeah, it is more complicated than what I said before because our brain is pretty good at fixing broken sentences with context. Rules for context and pragmatics should also be included in requirements of meaningfulness. My bad for missing that.