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Publication details [#10108]

Wilks, Yorick. 1976. Philosophy of language. In Charniak, Eugene and Yorick Wilks, eds. Computational semantics: An introduction to artificial intelligence and natural language comprehension. North Holland. pp. 205–233.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

formalism | philosophy of language

Person as a subject

Montague, R. | Wittgenstein, L.

Annotation

An attempt to show that the influence of Wittgenstein on the attempt to construct formalisms to express the content of language has been largely beneficial, while the influence of Montague in this respect has been largely malign.