BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2008/newsitem/2306/19- May-2008-Logic-Language-and-Reasoning-Seminar-Nina -Gierasimczuk-and-Jakub-Szymanik DTSTAMP:20080410T000000 SUMMARY:Logic, Language, and Reasoning Seminar, Ni na Gierasimczuk and Jakub Szymanik ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Nina Gierasimczuk and Jakub Szymanik DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20080519T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20080519T170000 LOCATION:Room P.3.27, Euclides Building, Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:We discuss the thesis formulated by Hi ntikka (1973) that there exist natural language se ntences which require non-linear (non-Fregean) qua ntification to express their meaning. Our basic as sumption is that a criterion for an adequacy of a meaning representation is its compatibility with s entence truth-conditions. Among others, it can be established by observing linguistic behavior of la nguage users. We investigate sentences with non-Fr egean combinations of quantifiers similar to Hinti kka's examples and propose a novel alternative rea ding expressible by linear formulae. The interpret ation seems intuitively very solid. Moreover, our empirical research shows that people tend to inter pret Hintikka's like sentences in a way consistent with it. We will survey discussion on Hintikka's Thesis and present our experiments and results. For more information, see http://staff.science.uv a.nl/~szymanik/LLR.html X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
\n We discuss the thesis formulated by Hintikka (1973 ) that there exist natural language sentences whic h require non-linear (non-Fregean) quantification to express their meaning. Our basic assumption is that a criterion for an adequacy of a meaning repr esentation is its compatibility with sentence trut h-conditions. Among others, it can be established by observing linguistic behavior of language users . We investigate sentences with non-Fregean combin ations of quantifiers similar to Hintikka's exampl es and propose a novel alternative reading express ible by linear formulae. The interpretation seems intuitively very solid. Moreover, our empirical re search shows that people tend to interpret Hintikk a's like sentences in a way consistent with it. We will survey discussion on Hintikka's Thesis and p resent our experiments and results.\n
\n \n\n For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl /~szymanik/LLR.html\n
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