Thought Is Allowed

When is Situation Semantics Allowed?

Quantification over individuals seems to be all we need to capture the covariation in (1a). It has been proposed within the framework of situation semantics (Kratzer 1989) that there can also be quantification over situations. The most convincing case is that of quantificational adverbs (Berman 1987, Heim 1990, von Fintel 1994)—I will be assuming in this paper that the correct analysis of these...

How abstract is symbolic thought?

In 4 experiments, the authors explored the role of visual layout in rule-based syntactic judgments. Participants judged the validity of a set of algebraic equations that tested their ability to apply the order of operations. In each experiment, a nonmathematical grouping pressure was manipulated to support or interfere with the mathematical convention. Despite the formal irrelevance of these gr...

What Is “Original Enlightenment Thought”?

Allowed Arguments

Starling with a first-order modal conditional logic which allows unlimited nesting of defaults and emheddings into any context analyzable in possibleworlds theory I introduce two simple notions of default reasoning the syntactic notion of (pnorniied) Allowed Consequence and the semantic notion of (prioritized) Allowed Entailment I prove that the one is sound and complete relative to the other

Running head: How abstract is symbolic thought? How abstract is symbolic thought?

In four experiments, we explored the role of visual layout in rule-based syntactic judgments. Participants judged the validity of a set of algebraic equations testing their ability to apply the order of operations. In each experiment, a non-mathematical grouping pressure was manipulated to support or interfere with the mathematical convention. Despite the formal irrelevance of these grouping ma...