Making Computational Sense of Montague's Intensional Logic (Classic Reprint)

Jerry R. Hobbs, Stanley J. Rosenschein

ISBN 10: 1332153542 / ISBN 13: 9781332153541

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Print on Demand. This book reframes Montague's complex model-theoretic interpretion of intensional logic, showing how it can be related to procedural semantics. Though Montague's system involves infinite sets and functions that fail computability tests, the author demonstrates how it can be implemented by replacing the logic's bottom layer with a set of procedures that preserve computability. The author highlights Montague's significant contribution to the field by showing how the procedural method of knowledge representation can be sharpened in the very area that has caused it the most criticism: the ad hoc nature of its definitions. By replacing the Montague system's bottom layer with a set of procedures that preserve computability, the author demonstrates that the research in Montague grammar is compatible with research in procedural semantics. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781332153541_0

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Verlag: Forgotten Books

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020

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Excerpt from Making Computational Sense of Montague's Intensional Logic

Montague's method for assigning meanings to English sentences involves three distinct phases. An English string is assigned a syntactic analysis with respect to a categorial grammar. This is translated into an expression in the language of intensional logic. Finally, this expression undergoes model - theoretic interpretation.

Montague's language of intensional logic is a typed lambda calculus. In this language he constructs a generally complex formula representing a pattern of composition and application of functions, ultimately derived from the basic terms of the language, such terms as man, seek, run, etc.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.