Semantics Minus Context

A lovingly curated selection of passages from the formal semantics literature.

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Imagine that there was no contextually established set of strawberries.

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A context where it is merely taken for granted that there exist Harvard alumni is not good enough

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If Hans hasn't even read comic books or computer manuals, he is hopeless.

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At one level this is a claim about my grandmother. But it is also a claim about me

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I would start beating my pants with my hands, rather than laughing

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Suppose that George is the victim of a Cartesian demon

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this lexicalization is far from universal and appears not to confer any general advantage in mindreading

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It is not ad hoc; rather, it is just what we should expect when we are composing schmentences.

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The optional label "All-Men" names the rule.

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call him Rational Ignoramus

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But why would one want to engage in such an enterprise?

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negation turns anything into a test

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in English, the intensity of mental states can be measured

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Suppose I tell you that I have just bought a box of dweeber's tools.

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We assume that the notion "word" is clear enough for our purposes.

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The equality predicate is not allowed in the language.

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Perhaps she realized that she was unable to write anything better than "Goblin Market"

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Languages contain sentence that, when used, allow us to display what lacks we have.

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For convenience, I will use the term 'the glue' in a functional way

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bringing monks to salience prior to the sluice renders the sentence significantly less degraded

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the question denotes a single and very specific answer, namely "I fed you and gave you a proper education"