Semantics Minus Context @SemMinusContext
A lovingly curated selection of passages from the formal semantics literature. The actual world Joined November 2017-
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A context where it is merely taken for granted that there exist Harvard alumni is not good enough
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If Hans hasn't even read comic books or computer manuals, he is hopeless.
At one level this is a claim about my grandmother. But it is also a claim about me
I would start beating my pants with my hands, rather than laughing
Suppose that George is the victim of a Cartesian demon
this lexicalization is far from universal and appears not to confer any general advantage in mindreading
It is not ad hoc; rather, it is just what we should expect when we are composing schmentences.
The optional label "All-Men" names the rule.
But why would one want to engage in such an enterprise?
in English, the intensity of mental states can be measured
Suppose I tell you that I have just bought a box of dweeber's tools.
We assume that the notion "word" is clear enough for our purposes.
The equality predicate is not allowed in the language.
Perhaps she realized that she was unable to write anything better than "Goblin Market"
Languages contain sentence that, when used, allow us to display what lacks we have.
For convenience, I will use the term 'the glue' in a functional way
bringing monks to salience prior to the sluice renders the sentence significantly less degraded
the question denotes a single and very specific answer, namely "I fed you and gave you a proper education"
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