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How AI struggles with a “meaning is use” view of linguistics

Mario Gabriele
Oct 03, 2019
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In his work Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, the philosopher Wittgenstein advances a “picture theory of meaning” with regards to language. That position defined language as “atomic,” true only in so much as it reflec…

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