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On the history of the question of whether natural language is “illogical”

Posted on 1 May 2013 by Barbara H Partee — 10 Comments

Barbara H Partee University of Massachusetts Amherst There have been centuries of study of logic and of language. Some philosophers and logicians have argued that natural language is logically deficient, or even that “natural language has no logic”. And before…

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