From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 09/02/2026 14:57, Mikko wrote:   
   > Logic is not paralyzed. Separating semantics from inference rules   
   > ensures that semantic problems don't affect the study of proofs   
   > and provability.   
      
   Would you agree that inference rules are a formalisation of some semantics.   
      
   a) in a sense   
   b) yes, properly   
      
   ?   
      
   And then a syntactical system is one in which there remains no   
   unformalised semantics (or, indeed, pragmatics), not even identification   
   of thought objects.   
      
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