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references m-o
Topic:
limitations of formalism
Topic:
words in natural languages
Topic:
private language argument for skepticism about meaning
Group:
natural language
Topic:
problem of classifying information
Topic:
people vs. computers
Topic:
language and life as a game
Group:
meaning and truth

Reference

Oettinger, A.G., "The Semantic Wall", pp. 1-11, in David, E.E. (ed.), Human Communication: A Unified View, McGraw-Hill, 1972. Google

Quotations
5 ;;Quote: perhaps the phoneme is constructed, if at all, as a consequence of perception, not as a step of perception
7 ;;Quote: only an appeal to semantics can resolve the syntactic ambiguity of 'time flies like an arrow'; three acceptable structures
11 ;;Quote: the syntactic structure and phonemes of a sentence depends on its meaning
11+;;Quote: a schoolboy parses a sentence backwards, from meaning to structure

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