LING 360 Study Guide - Final Guide: Syntactic Ambiguity, First-Order Logic, Chinese Numerals
25 Oct 2016
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This is why if you"re doing this, it makes no sense to say oh, i"m thinking about semantics, not syntax. there"s no such thing as semantics without syntax. We"re not in a philosophy class. in philosophy, we wouldn"t care about natural structure. How does the meaning of the parts determined the meaning of a whole - logic gives us an example in an artificial system. This suggests that we understand new sentences with a complex meaning on the basis of understanding the parts . This is a priori reasoning to do this on the basis of general observation. Be more precise about it, have evidence to support the generalization that this evidence suggests . We know that, for example, even though we don"t know what meaning is, we have a way of tracking meaning , which is people"s judgements about whether or not things are true or false. So we see, for example, if we get an expression like:
