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Re: the symbol-grounding problem

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From: David Pautler
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:54
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In article <1992Nov11.013102.9830@psych.toronto.edu>, christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
> In article <1992Nov10.220857.8355@ils.nwu.edu> pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) writes:
> >
> >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?

In the book I mentioned earlier in my article, _Meaning and
Mental Representations_.

The table of contents is:

Jon Barwise, On the Circumstantial Relation between Meaning and Content.

Umberto Eco, On Truth. A Fiction.

Gilles Fauconnier, Quantification, Roles and Domains

Ray Jackendoff, Conceptual Semantics.

Philip N. Johnson-Laird, How is Meaning Mentally Represented?

George Lakoff, Cognitive Semantics

Wendy Lehnert, The Analysis of Nominal Compounds.

Roger Schank and Alex Kass, Knowledge REpresentation in People and Machines.

Bas van Fraassen, Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics.

Yorick Wilks, Reference and Its Role in Computational Models of Mental
		Representations.


'Pretty good cross-section, huh?

The editors are Eco, Santambrogio, and Violi.  The publisher is Indiana U.

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