Your third homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Tuesday, February 14, at the beginning of class. (Note that the due date has been pushed back by one class meeting from what was originally listed on the printed syllabus.) HW3 (due …
Here’s a handout entitled “All, most, and some: A case study in scalar implicature”, which summarizes what we saw in today’s class. The notion “scalar implicature” will remain with us throughout the semester, so it will pay to review this material, and make sure that you understand each step in the reasoning process that underlies scalar implicatures. …
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For next Tuesday 2/7, please read sections 2.1 and 2.2 (pgs. 24-32) of the Kearns textbook. The reading describes the language of propositional logic, a precisely-defined formal language that allows us to represent the truth conditions of certain English sentences. We will spend next week becoming acquainted with the language of propositional logic, and seeing …
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