Let me start by thanking Professors Santorio and Szabo for their insightful comments careful readings of Conjoining Meanings (CM). They highlight the main theses describe project in helpful ways.1 So instead multiplying summaries, let say a little about what motivated project. Chomsky was influential. But teaching truth-theoretic semantics, many years, really convinced need different conception...

There is a growing interest in pragmatism within organisational and informational studies. Pragmatism has been seen as a viable alternative to positivism and anti-positivism. This paper explores the meanings of pragmatism in terms of implications for how to conduct research on information systems. Its main source of inspiration is the American philosophy of pragmatism. The paper describes the n...

Consider an English sentence of length n, say “Cats like to chase mice” with n = 5. Suppose that we are given a binary tree representing the syntactic structure of the sentence. Each word is a leaf node of the tree, and there are n− 1 internal nodes. Each internal node covers a phrase of two or more consecutive words. We will associate a column vector in R with each node, to represent the meani...

Daniel Hack Tuke first used the word 'psychotherapeutics' in 1872 (Ellenberger, 1970, p. 765). He defined the term psychotherapy in his dictionary (Tuke, 1892), published twenty years later, as 'treatment of disease by the influence of the mind on the body'. Advances in the field of the behavioural sciences and other events in the twentieth century have led to changes in the meanings of psychot...

Entropy is a basic physical quantity that led to various, and sometimes apparently connicting interpretations. It has been successively assimilated to diierent concepts such as disorder and information. In this paper we're going to revisit these conceptions, and establish the three following results: Entropy measures lack of information; it also measures information. These two conceptions are c...

In this paper we claim that meaningful representations can be learned by programs, although today they are almost always designed by skilled engineers. We discuss several kinds of meaning that representations might have, and focus on a functional notion of meaning as appropriate for programs to learn. Speci cally, a representation is meaningful if it incorporates an indicator of external condit...