Changes to Class Schedule for November/December

I’ve made a few changes to our class schedule for November and December. Those of you who were in class today (Tuesday) received a printed version of the revised schedule. The “Schedule” section on this website has also been updated to reflect the changes. (There are also a few printed copies of the new schedule …

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Reading for Th 11/5: excerpt from E. Bach, “Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics”

For this Thursday’s class, please read the excerpt from Emmon Bach’s Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics. The Bach excerpt provides a concise and clear summary of predicate logic. Much of the material will be recognizable to you after today’s (Tuesday’s) lecture. On Thursday, we will begin discussing variables and quantification, which comes up later in …

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