Re: String and Language



John Jones wrote:
Strawson dealt the death-blow to Russels predicate logic, but did not
put it very well. A sentence first of all I would say has sense mapped
to it, a sentence does not reveal sense. Accordingly, an isolated
sentence may have many interpretations, but interpretation is not the
way we speak and talk. I am very much doubtful that any linguistic
logic will ever get over this hurdle.

What predicate logic? What hurdle?

Do you mean that mapping sense to sentence
always implies using predicate logic?
(My answer is no, there are alternatives
to FOL which work very well)

Do you mean that a sentence having many
interpretations is a hurdle?
(My answer is no, its actually the business
of computational linguistic to deal with
ambiguitiy)

What did you else say?


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