Meaning and Thinking

Relevance Theory and/or Gricean pragmatics; Chomsky on language and mind; and related parts of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, formal semantics and logic.

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Poetry isn’t just a pretty way of saying plain things

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So says George Szirtes , and he’s right. Compare Sperber and Wilson (1990): The most scathing criticism addressed by the Romantics to clas...

Monday, May 26, 2014

If and even if

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A biscuit conditional with parenthetical even-if clause from the Guardian’s coverage of European elections in the UK: if you didn't ...

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Uncooked lobsters are red: they just don't look that way

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Just a bit of data for contextualists and perhaps response-dependence theorists. In last week’s New Scientist the question is asked “Why do ...

Monday, November 11, 2013

What literature knows about your brain...

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…is the name of a new blog about cognitive science and literature . The author, Raphael Lyne , says he “will be tempted to see literary work...

Friday, November 08, 2013

T-Rex on the poverty of the stimulus

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I was a bit slow to blog this one, which came out in August. In the meantime, someone I pointed it out to says that it’s great apart fr...

Friday, November 01, 2013

Structural ambiguity and the law

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Mark Liberman at Language Log covers a US Supreme Court case that may hinge on the interpretation of this part of a statute: Except as oth...

Sunday, March 17, 2013

As likely as any other theory…

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From Bizarro comics via Language Log .

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