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Ideas for David Roochnik, John Searle and Mary Wollstonecraft

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5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 1. Semantics of Logic

3810	In real reasoning semantics gives validity, not syntax [Searle]
	Full Idea: In real-life reasoning it is the semantic content that guarantees the validity of the inference, not the syntactical rule.
	From: John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Ch.1.II)