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0. OUTLINE
Outline
0. Outline
1. Natural Language
2. The Language of Thought
3. The ‘Direct’ Theory
4. Arguments for DT
5. Arguments against DT
6. Conclusion
1. NATURAL LANGUAGE
Compositionality
Natural languages are compositional.
What does that mean?
Why should we care?
Computability
I think those two questions are related:
Natural languages are compositional in the
sense that the meanings of complex NL
expressions are computable from the meanings
of their parts and the way that those parts are
syntactically combined.
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