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NL-KR Digest Volume 06 No. 18
NL-KR Digest (Thu Apr 6 11:01:54 1989) Volume 6 No. 18
Today's Topics:
Moderators Notes: N16
Buffalo Logic Colloquium
Answer on Esperanto to Beutel
CSLI Calendar, April 6, 4:21
Addition to Calendar
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 11:00:12 EDT
From: weltyc@fs3.cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
Subject: Moderators Notes: N16
For some reason, many people did not get #16 of this volume, so I sent
it a second time, this means some may have gotten it twice or even three
times.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 14:14:52 EDT
From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport)
Subject: Buffalo Logic Colloquium
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
BUFFALO LOGIC COLLOQUIUM
GRADUATE GROUP IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
and
GRADUATE RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN COGNITIVE AND LINGUISTIC SCIENCES
PRESENT
JACEK PASNICZEK
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Department of Logic
Marie Curie-Sklodowska University
Lublin, Poland
FIRST- AND HIGHER-ORDER MEINONGIAN LOGIC
Meinongian logic is a logic based on Alexius Meinong's ontological
views. Meinong was an Austrian philosopher who lived and worked around
the turn of the century. He is known as a creator of a very rich objec-
tual ontology including non-existent objects, and even incomplete and
impossible ones, e.g., "the round square". Such objects are formally
treated by Meinongian logic. The Meinongian logic presented here (M-
logic) is not the only Meinongian one: there are some other theories
that are formalizations of Meinong's ontology and that may be considered
as Meinongian logics (e.g., Parsons's, Zalta's, Rapaport's, and
Jacquette's theories). But the distinctive feature of M-logic is that
it is a very natural and straightforward extension of classical first-
order logic--the only primitive symbols of the language of M-logic are
those occurring in the first-order classical language. Individual con-
stants and quantifiers are treated as expressions of the same category.
This makes the syntax of M-logic close to natural-language syntax. M-
logic is presented as an axiomatic system and as a semantical theory.
Not only is first-order logic developed, but the higher-order M-logic as
well.
Wednesday, April 26, 1989
4:00 P.M.
684 Baldy Hall, Amherst Campus
For further information, contact John Corcoran, Dept. of Philosophy,
716-636-2444, or Bill Rapaport, Dept. of Computer Science, 716-636-3193.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 08:30:53 +0200
From: Klaus Schubert <dlt1!schubert@nluug.nl>
Phone: +31 30 911911
Telex: 40342 bso nl
Subject: Answer on Esperanto to Beutel
Dear David Beutel,
I read your questions about the use of Esperanto as an intermediate language
in the NL-KR Digest, Vol. 6, No. 16. Please note that one number before that
I answered a similar question asked by someone else. See NL-KR Digest 6:15.
Regards,
Klaus Schubert
schubert@dlt1.uucp
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 17:23:14 PDT
From: emma@csli.Stanford.EDU (Emma Pease)
Subject: CSLI Calendar, April 6, 4:21
C S L I C A L E N D A R O F P U B L I C E V E N T S
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6 April 1989 Stanford Vol. 4, No. 21
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A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR THIS THURSDAY, 6 April 1989
1:00 p.m. TINLunch
Cordura Hall Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Intentionality
Conference Room John Searle
2:15 p.m. CSLI Seminar
Cordura Hall Varieties of Context: Overview
Conference Room (Abstract below)
3:30 p.m. Tea
Ventura Hall
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 13 April 1989
2:15 p.m. CSLI Seminar
Cordura Hall Varieties of Context: Session 2
Conference Room
3:30 p.m. Tea
Ventura Hall
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Please note that the TINLunch for this week is at 1:00 instead of the
usual time of 12:00.
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CSLI SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
Varieties of Context
led by
Jim Greeno, Brian Smith, Susan Stucky
2:15, Thursdays
Even people who haven't been around CSLI realize the the word `I' can
be used to refer to different people depending on circumstance. So
why is such a fuss being made of this fact? There are two reasons.
First, rather than view contextual dependence as a peripheral or
complicating incident, recent theories of language have started to
treat it as central and enabling---as a core phenomenon. Second,
contextual dependence has been cited in other semantical fields, too:
logic, psychology, computation, etc.
In this seminar, we'll look at context in a wide range of
examples---drawn from syntax, Tarskian satisfaction, the Mac
interface, natural-language discourse, programming-language semantics,
even mechanics. The goal is both to understand what is common among
such cases, and also to see how they differ. Is context-dependence
really a coherent phenomenon, to justify the single rallying cry?
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THIS WEEK'S TINLUNCH
Consciousness, Unconsciousness and Intentionality
John Searle
Thursday, April 6, 1:00
Cordura Conference Room
Professor Searle's view is that it is a mistake to try to account for
mental phenomena without reference to consciousness---a mistake he
believes most cognitive scientists and analytic philosophers make. At
today's TINLunch he will examine some recent work in this tradition
purported to have some bearing on questions of consciousness and
discuss the notion of "unconscious mental process," which plays a
crucial role in all such work. The postulation of these kinds of
processes, Searle believes, is a result of the inability of the
tradition to account for the subjectivity of conscious states.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
What Does Hermeneutics have to do with Symbolic Systems?
Terry Winograd
Friday, 14 April, 3:15, 60:62N
Over the past few years, I have participated in developing theories of
language and meaning that differ in substantial ways from the
mainstream of work in cognitive science, computer science, and
analytic philosophy. One of the earlier traditions that has played a
prominent role in this development is that of "phenomenological
hermeneutics" as reflected in the writings of Heidegger, Gadamer, and
others. These writings have not generally found a sympathetic
listening among the community associated with "symbolic systems," and
I often hear questions like:
"What in the world does hermeneutics have to do with science?
Does hermeneutics even make sense?"
In the talk I will engage these questions by examining the deeper
questions and assumptions that set the background in which they were
framed. The invevitable conclusion will be that the answer to the
question posed by the title is "Everything!"
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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Aristotle on Practical Reasoning
Christopher Taylor
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Monday, 10 April, 5:15
90:92Q (Philosophy Department Seminar Room)
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CSLI PUBLICATIONS
The CSLI Publications Office is pleased to announce the publication of
two new titles. They can be bought at many academic bookstores
including the Stanford Bookstore or can be ordered directly from the
University of Chicago Press by phoning 1-800-621-2736, or by writing
University of Chicago Press
11030 S. Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
"The Situation in Logic"
by Jon Barwise (336 pp.)
Situation theory and situation semantics are recent approaches to
language and information first formulated by Jon Barwise and John
Perry in "Situations and Attitudes" (1983). The present volume
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those directly concerned with relations between logic, situation
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Paper ISBN: 0-937-07332-6 $14.95
and
"Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar"
by Mark Johnson (180 pp.)
Because of the ease of their implementation, attribute value-based
theories of grammar are becoming increasingly popular in theoretical
linguistics as an alternative to transformational accounts, as well as
in computational linguistics. Johnson provides a formal analysis of
attribute value structures, of their use in a theory of grammar, of
the representation of grammatical relations in such theories of
grammar, and the implications of different representations. A
classical treatment of disjunction is also included.
Cloth ISBN: 0-937-07337-7 $37.50
Paper ISBN: 0-937-07336-9 $15.95
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 12:47:45 PDT
From: emma@csli.Stanford.EDU (Emma Pease)
Subject: Addition to Calendar
Updated abstract for the Spring Seminar series.
CSLI SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
Varieties of Context
Thursdays, 2:15
Even people who haven't been around CSLI realize the the word 'I' can
be used to refer to different people depending on circumstance. So
why is such a fuss being made of this fact? There are two reasons.
First, rather than view contextual dependence as a peripheral or
complicating incident, recent theories of language have started to
treat it as central and enabling---as a core phenomenon. Second,
contextual dependence has been cited in other semantical fields, too:
logic, psychology, computation, etc.
In this seminar, we'll look at context in a wide range of
examples---drawn from syntax, Tarskian satisfaction, the Mac
interface, natural-language discourse, programming-language semantics,
even mechanics. The goal is both to understand what is common among
such cases, and also to see how they differ. Is context-dependence
really a coherent phenomenon, to justify the single rallying cry?
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