Could Semantics Be Something Else? Philosophical Challenges for Formal Semantics
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Starting from an old, yet still relevant paper of Johan van Benthem, this paper explores the possible consequences of certain philosophical considerations for the concept of a formal semantics of natural language, and argues that this issue is important from the perspective of an overall theory of human information processing.
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