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mm_ OP wrote

Reply to comment by anand in "An interactive online textbook on propositional logic, from mathematician Terry Tao. Learn by proving things!" by mm_

ooh thats so cool, yea i was mistaken about what your talking about, now i realize its more like philosophy right? like the early analytics started? i have some pages bookmarked on montague semantics somewhere

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anand wrote

yeah, montague semantics is one approach that heavily influenced the field (it essentially invented the syntax-semantics interface, where you give meanings to sentences by giving meanings to words and composing them through the syntax)!

the field as a whole is on the border between philosophy and linguistics, which is really dope. it has to draw from philosophy to get satisfactory explanations of meaning in the first place, but also from linguistics so it can use syntax.

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