Timeline for How to translate words like "the" to other languages?
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| Jul 24, 2022 at 18:29 | comment | added | jlawler | I'm not sure I would call logic, or any mathematics, "the real world". Mathematicians are very real, but they don't always live in the same world. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 18:12 | comment | added | Draconis♦ | @jlawler I admit all of my formal semantics knowledge comes from classes rather than real life, but I did always find the iota definition lacking. I'm not too surprised to hear that it hasn't caught on in the real world. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 18:09 | comment | added | jlawler | Definite descriptions involve presuppositions, which are definitely pragmatic and not logical. Russell's iota notation never really caught on, I think partly for this reason; it's clearly handwaving and "captures" nothing. Here's some other presupposition triggers from Levinson. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 3:57 | history | answered | Draconis♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |