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Re: [ontolog-forum] Role of definitions (Remember the poor human)

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From: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey <klaskey@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:49:32 -0500
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>...I think it is potentially confusing, and at
>the least out of keeping with standard usage in logic, to call
>anything proof theoretic "semantics".    (01)

In computer science, programs have operational semantics.  I read a 
paper a few years ago describing an inference engine the author 
wrote, which said "The semantics of our engine is what it computes."    (02)

A proof theory for a logic would correspond to operational semantics 
for a theorem prover based on that proof theory.    (03)

Logicians might not use the word "semantics" for this, but computer 
scientists do.    (04)

K    (05)

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