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Does a definition of a word in a dictionary provide the syntax or the semantics of the word it defined?
by pmoriarty 3y ago
Does a definition of a word in a dictionary provide the syntax or the semantics of the word it defined?
- somewhereoutth 3y agoIn common use by humans, it provides semantics, in terms of other previously understood semantics. However, if there is no semantic understanding by the reader, then all it provides is a syntactic rewrite rule for each word.