I address the question how to delimit the concept of a proposition that would suit the purpose
of theories of meaning in discourse–meaning that is conveyed by the speaker, recovered by …

This article surveys the philosophical literature on theoretical linguistics. The focus of the
paper is centred around the major debates in the philosophy of linguistics, past and present …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) pervades humanity in 2022, and it is notoriously difficult to
understand how certain aspects of it work. There is a movement—Explainable Artificial …

Changing concepts, understood as social constructs and facets of linguistic expressions,
and likewise the mechanisms of change and the dynamicity of their contents, cannot be …

Lexical innovations (eg, zero-derivations coined on the fly by a speaker) seem to bear
semantic content. Yet, such expressions cannot bear semantic content as a function of the …

In this article, I describe a novel position on the semantics of artificial intelligence. I present a
problem for the current artificial neural networks used in machine learning, specifically with …

Comprehenders routinely construct abstracted representations of the situations described by
language, integrate these representations with existing knowledge, and store these in …

According to long-standing orthodoxy in contemporary analytic philosophy of language, the
content of a sentence (that is, the information it encodes and what one asserts when one …

The present thesis attempts to offer an epistemological account of the modeling practices
involved in linguistic model-theoretic truth-conditional compositional semantics. That is, it …

Unless we are willing to countenance the skeptical possibility that most of our thought and
talk is meaningless, it would seem that something must guarantee that the ontology …