(March 25, 2023 at 9:49 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: As an addendum, my intuition is that semantics cannot be reduced to syntax. One example of why I think that, is the common issue of having one's words taken out of context. The context people here refer to is usually not the surrounding sentences but the social context in which they occurred. In other words, the meaning of a sentence is embedded in the environment.
I do not see how a reduction can occur without loss of information.
Puns and double-meanings are a great example.
