Propositions are spooks, like kobolds or banshees. No one has ever captured one on camera, or in a zoo. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions/ …
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Sentences are ambiguous & context-dependent. Propositions are imagined as fixed-up sentences that behave themselves. But no one can say how.
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Propositions could only work if the world were perfectly tidy. But it’s inherently nebulous; so purpose-dependent language is efficacious!
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Is that why so many programs struggle with accurate language comprehension? Because language depends on modeling the world?
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