Could Semantics Be Something Else?
Philosophical Challenges for Formal Semantics

Martin Stokhof

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Department of Philosophy
University of Amsterdam
stokhof@hum.uva.nl
http://www.wins.uva.nl/~stokhof

Abstract

Starting from an old, yet still relevant paper of Johan van Benthem, this paper explores the possible consequences of certain philosophical considerations for the concept of a formal semantics of natural language, and argues that this issue is important from the perspective of an overall theory of human information processing.

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