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  Logicism in Formalizing Common Sense and in Natural Language Semantics

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by Richmond H. Thomason
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~rthomaso/documents/common-sense-lexical-semantics.ps
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Abstract:

I briefly rehearse a general characterization of logicism that includes projects within philosophical logic, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. After a digression in which I survey work in natural language semantics that I claim is very relevant to common sense logicism, I describe a logicist project that attempts to formalize semantic relations among words in natural languages.

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