Re: what is a loglang?

william drewery said:
> I'm not sure I would agree with the way logic is being
> discussed here
>   It seems to me logic is more basic than semantics.
> Any form of intelligence would have exactly the same
> system of logic we do (Boolean),

1. Logic is an attempt to describe (and usually formalize) the way(s) in
which humans reason; semantics is an attempt to describe (and usually
formalize) the way(s) in which humans use language to mean stuff. Logic is
more basic than semantics only if reasoning is more basic than language --
me, I think they go hand-in-hand.

2. There are all sorts of logics, not just "classical", "standard" or
"Boolean" logic, many of which some people believe are more useful for
linguistic semantics than classical logic:

    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/logsys/nonstbib.htm


-- Mark