THE difference between English and American practice in the use of some of our commonest words is an interesting study, on which much has been written. There is one aspect of this subject, however, ...

A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Broad focus (or informational integration or nonautonomy) is lexically and contextually constrained, but these constraints are not well ...

A new formalism for predicate logic is introduced, with a non-standard method of binding variables, which allows a compositional formalization of certain anaphoric constructions, including 'donkey ...

Sipho Seepe’s article (”Language, truth and logic”, October 5) is right on the money. However, I propose that the ruling elite, far from their inability to structure their thoughts or present dissent ...

In the glitzy world of tech, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is undoubtedly stealing the limelight. This A.I. dynamo boasts impressive feats in language generation. But while it might wow with its wordplay, it can ...

Brain-imaging techniques have made it possible to explore the neural foundations of logical and mathematical cognition. These techniques are revealing more than simply where these high-order processes ...