Intuitions and competence in formal semantics

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Publication date 2011
Journal Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Event 6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication, entitled ‘Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models’
Volume | Issue number 6
Pages (from-to) 1-23
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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract In formal semantics intuition plays a key role, in two ways. Intuitions about semantic properties of expressions are the primary data, and intuitions of the semanticists are the main access to these data. The paper investigates how this dual role is related to the concept of competence and the role that this concept plays in semantics. And it inquires whether the self-reflexive role of intuitions has consequences for the methodology of semantics as an empirical discipline.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Context and Models Publisher: New Prairie Press Place of publication: Manhattan, KS Editors: M. Glanzberg, B.H. Partee, J. Šķilters
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1584
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