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Article #239Re: the symbol-grounding problem
From: David Pautler
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:54
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. -dp-
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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!news.ils.nwu.edu!pautler From: pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) Subject: Re: the symbol-grounding problem Message-ID: <1992Nov11.155406.29513@ils.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@ils.nwu.edu (Mr. usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: aristotle.ils.nwu.edu Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:54:06 GMT Lines: 45