Simulation semantics can revitalize the formalization of meaning:.Reply to comments on “Embodied language, best-fit analysis, and formal compositionality”
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Yet every sentence is not a proposition; only such are propositions that have in them truth or falsity. Thus a prayer is a sentence, but it is neither true nor false. Let us therefore dismiss all other types of sentences but the proposition, for this last concerns our present inquiry, whereas the investigation of others belongs rather to the study of rhetoric or poetry. Aristotle (De Interpretatione 17a1-8).
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