Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 40 of 68

Learning Chinese from a Chinese-Chinese dictionary

First, imagine a native English-speaker learning Chinese, armed only with a Chinese-Chinese dictionary. Harnard likens this to a cryptologist cracking a code.

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Agents must publicly declare their ontologies

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Discovering what another agent means

The moment we accept the problem and grant that agents may not use the same terms to mean the same things, we need a way for an agent to discover what another…

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Externalism and the stagnation of philosophy of language

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Informal semantics

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Markup tags carry no built-in meaning

This particular markup language uses the words "sentence," "person," and "animal" as tag names in an attempt to convey some of the meaning of the elements…

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Meaning as use, with a qualification

Wittgenstein argued that meanings of words often cannot be specified in logically comprehensive terms. ‘For a large class of cases – though not for all – in…

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