... straightforward computational task. The resulting account is called equilibrium semantics. Equilibrium Equilibrium semantics Feynman Richard Game theory Paradigm Situation theory Austin J L Formal semantics Frege Gottlob Grice Paul Information flow Philosophy Reference Rorty Richard Russell Bertrand...

...This chapter first examines some questions related to indeterminacy in the meanings of utterances and equilibrium semantics. It then looks at a further general source of indeterminacy related to the favored Austinian conception of truth. Next, the key question of why texts often have multiple...

...Equilibrium semantics is now applied to a variety of noun phrases. This chapter focuses on the author’s preferred accounts of these phenomena within the system of constraints SCIF [syntactic constraint ( S ), conventional constraint ( C ), informational constraint ( I ), flow constraint ( F...

...Equilibrium semantics has been articulated as a theory that enables the computation of meaning, as an overarching framework that permits the construction of variant theories, and as a paradigm embodying the central idea and image of balance or equilibrium. The origins of the account in the four...