Subject: Searle From: "William J. Rapaport" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:14:12 -0500 (EST) A student writes: "In the Searle paper, in every case where Searle uses the word 'syntactical', can this be replaced with 'functional'?" Reply: Well, you can try it and see if what he says makes sense that way. But I really think he means "syntactical", in the sense of "symbol manipulation". I'll talk a bit about "syntax" and "semantics" next week. In the meantime, you might take a look at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/563S05/formalsystems.html