Formal Semantics and Applied Mathematics: An Inferential Account
| Autor: | Ryan M. Nefdt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Linguistics and Language
Philosophy of science Computer science Principle of compositionality Formal semantics (linguistics) 010102 general mathematics Inference 06 humanities and the arts Nous 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Scientific modelling 01 natural sciences Philosophy 060302 philosophy Computer Science (miscellaneous) Applied mathematics 0101 mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Logic, Language and Information. 29:221-253 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9583 0925-8531 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10849-019-09298-z |
| Popis: | In this paper, I utilise the growing literature on scientific modelling to investigate the nature of formal semantics from the perspective of the philosophy of science. Specifically, I incorporate the inferential framework proposed by Bueno and Colyvan (Nous 45(2): 345–374, 2011) in the philosophy of applied mathematics to offer an account of how formal semantics explains and models its data. This view produces a picture of formal semantic models as involving an embedded process of inference and representation applying indirectly to linguistic phenomena. The final aim of the paper is directed at proposing a novel account of the syntax–semantics interface while shedding light on empty categories, semantically null forms, underspecified content and compositionality as a whole. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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