Re: the symbol-grounding problem

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From: Christopher Green
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:31

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In article <1992Nov10.220857.8355@ils.nwu.edu> pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) writes:
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>But I suggest starting
>with Yorick Wilks' article, which explains why he prefers "procedural"
>semantics to "denotative" semantics, and why he believes Barwise and
>Johnson-Laird have both come up short.

Interesting. J-L is an advocate of procedural semantics. Look, too, at
Jerry Fodor's "Tom Swift and his procedural grandmother" in _Representations_.

Where can one find the Wilks article?


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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