Abstract It is generally assumed that hinge-commitments are deprived of an epistemically normative structure, and yet, although groundless, the acceptance Wittgensteinian certainties still rational. The problem comes from intellectualist view hinge-approvals which many recent proposals advance—one falls short necessities impossibilities pertaining to what would be right description how it like ...

This paper is about language understanding using Belief Networks. Language understanding is a key technology in human-computer conversational systems. These systems often need to handle information-seeking queries from the user regarding a restricted domain. We devised a method for identifying the user’s communicative goal(s) out of a finite set of within-domain goals. The problem is formulated...

In this article, I will outline, how three meaning theoretic paradigms deal with the content of belief, and what difficulties each of them faces: the Fregean approach, the Neo-Russellian or direct reference approach, and the dualist approach as a mixture of both. The Fregean approach stipulates senses that correspond to linguistic expressions and fulfill various roles such as determining the tr...