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The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English

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The aim of this paper is to present in a rigorous way the syntax and semantics of a certain fragment of acertain dialect of English.
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The aim of this paper is to present in a rigorous way the syntax and semantics of a certain fragment of a certain dialect of English. For expository purposes the fragment has been made as simple and restricted as it can be while accommodating all the more puzzling cases of quantification and reference with which I am acquainted.1

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Perceptual symbol systems.

TL;DR: A perceptual theory of knowledge can implement a fully functional conceptual system while avoiding problems associated with amodal symbol systems and implications for cognition, neuroscience, evolution, development, and artificial intelligence are explored.
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A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation

Hans Kamp
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a semantic theory of pronominal anaphora, which combines a definition of truth with a systematic account of semantic representations, and is informed by the conviction that the mechanisms which govern deictic and anaphoric occurrences of pronouns are basically the same.
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The syntactic process

TL;DR: The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields.
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Definite clause grammars for language analysis—A survey of the formalism and a comparison with augmented transition networks

TL;DR: It is argued that DCGs can be at least as efficient as ATNs, whilst the DCG formalism is clearer, more concise and in practice more powerful.
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The logic of conventional implicatures

TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary case for Conventional Implicatures and a logic for conventional implicatures are presented, together with a syntactic analysis of Grice's definition.
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Word and Object

TL;DR: This edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.
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Formal philosophy; selected papers of Richard Montague

TL;DR: In this paper, a broadcast formal philosophy selected papers of richard montague can be one of the options to accompany you as soon as having supplementary time, which is an agreed easy means to specifically get lead by online.
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Semantics of natural language

Donald Davidson, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1972 - 
TL;DR: This paper discusses the role of Inductive Reasoning in the Interpretation of Metaphor, and some problems Concerning the Logic of Grammatical Modifiers.
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Reference and generality

Peter Geach
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Reference and Generality.