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10805 | A sentence should be recarved to reveal its content or implication relations |
Full Idea: A sentence invites recarving iff it will then do better justice to the internal structure of its content and/or its implication relations. | |||
From: Stephen Yablo (Carving Content at the Joints [2002], §11) | |||
A reaction: This invites human intervention in a logical process (by choosing which recarvings to do, instead of allowing all equivalences to generate them). He seems to think we should abstract in order to reveal logical form. |