Tag Archives: semantics
Google Docs: A New Hope
I suspect the Google Docs grammar bot is the least useful bot there is. After hundreds of suggestions, I can think of only one instance in which it was right. Is its failure rate so high because it learns from … Continue reading
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Tagged bots, Colonialism, economic inequaity, Google Docs, grammar, imperialism, machine learning, Punctuation, semantics, spellGrammar, spellGrammarFingerprint, styleguide, syntax, The New Yorker
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The unclosed clause and other things about commas
The Baffler carried a fantastic critique of The New Yorker‘s use of commas by Kyle Paoletta on August 23. Excerpt: The magazine’s paper subscription slips have long carried a tagline: “The best writing, anywhere.” It follows that the source of … Continue reading
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Tagged comma, dependent clauses, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grammar, James Salter, language, Mary Norris, Punctuation, semantics, Solar Bones, syntactics, The New Yorker
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An experiment in propositional calculus
Q: Are truths simply objective reasons whose truth-values may or may not be verifiable? A: This question seems to possess a native paradox, but that simply arises from a logical error in the semantics: we can’t address unverifiable statements as … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Ayer, language, Ludwig Wittgenstein, propositional calculus, semantics, tautology, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Truth and Logic
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