{"id":223,"date":"2009-11-03T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx502f09\/?p=223"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:29:39","slug":"reading-for-th-115-excerpt-from-e-bach-informal-lectures-on-formal-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/2009\/11\/03\/reading-for-th-115-excerpt-from-e-bach-informal-lectures-on-formal-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading for Th 11\/5:  excerpt from E. Bach, &#8220;Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this Thursday&#8217;s class, please read the excerpt from Emmon Bach&#8217;s <em>Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics.<\/em>  The Bach excerpt provides a  concise and clear summary of predicate logic.  Much of the material will be recognizable to you after today&#8217;s (Tuesday&#8217;s) lecture.  On Thursday, we will begin discussing variables and quantification, which comes up later in the reading.  (It also came up in the Kearns&#8217; reading from last weekend.)<\/p>\n<p>The Bach exerpt is available in the password-protected &#8220;Readings&#8221; section of the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this Thursday&#8217;s class, please read the excerpt from Emmon Bach&#8217;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&#8217;s (Tuesday&#8217;s) lecture. On Thursday, we will begin discussing variables and quantification, which comes up later in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/2009\/11\/03\/reading-for-th-115-excerpt-from-e-bach-informal-lectures-on-formal-semantics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Reading for Th 11\/5:  excerpt from E. Bach, &#8220;Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics&#8221;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}