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Kant’s Conception of Natural Language
From remarks scattered across Kant’s writings, Chap. 4 opposes the broadly held view that Kant has nothing to say about language or that he is not...
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Natural Language Processing Meets Deep Learning
Natural language processing (NLP) also known as computational linguistics (CL) is concerned with the question of how to endow computers with the...
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Logicality in natural language
Is there a relation of logical consequence in natural language? Logicality, in the philosophical literature, has been conceived of as a restrictive...
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Pathos in Natural Language Argumentation: Emotional Appeals and Reactions
In this paper, we present a model of pathos, delineate its operationalisation, and demonstrate its utility through an analysis of natural language...
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Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle
Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active...
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Natural language quantification is not polysemous
The paper argues that natural language quantification, as expressed by determiner phrases, is not polysemous. The foil for this claim is Hofweber...
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Type Polymorphism, Natural Language Semantics, and TIL
Transparent intensional logic (TIL) is a well-explored type-theoretical framework for semantics of natural language. However, its treatment of...
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Language
This chapter stages a confrontation between various post-structuralist materialisms of language and German Idealist naturalisms by way of two case...
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Divine Language
This chapter is an initial survey of some philosophical questions about divine language. Could God be a language producer and language user? Could...
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Capturing the Varieties of Natural Language Inference: A Systematic Survey of Existing Datasets and Two Novel Benchmarks
Transformer-based Pre-Trained Language Models currently dominate the field of Natural Language Inference (NLI). We first survey existing NLI...
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Language and Its Cultural Future
In this chapter, following contemporary discussions on the role of language in society, we analyze and propose a guide to four dimensions of...
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Natural Minds
A summary of the view of minds as embodied virtual machines, showing how this addresses the metaphysical issues from the first half of the text....
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Natural-Language Predicates as Relations of the Relational Model of Data
In this paper I review the Neo-Davidsonian semantics of prepositional phrases and secondary predication. I argue that certain types of examples pose...
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Natural Kinds
An explanation of the need to start with an account of ‘natural kinds’: we want statements of cognitive science to be general, explanatory, and...
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Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the...
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Natural Self-correction and Human Beings
This chapter focuses on a particular kind of education in Smith’s moral philosophy. Specifically, it describes in what sense Smith’s understanding of...
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The Violent Nature of Language
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Does Clan Culture Promote Corporate Natural Resource Disclosure? Evidence from Chinese Natural Resource-Based Listed Companies
With the problems of climate warming and ecological destruction becoming more and more serious, natural risks have attracted more and more attention,...
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The Poetic Use of Language
In this chapter, Dorothy Walsh examines the natures of the language of science and logic, the language of poetry, and the language of philosophy....
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Language Evolution: Theories and Evidence
Evolution is a hard problem, and language evolution even more so. There is no easy algorithmic answer to the problem of how language evolved and...