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    Computational linguistics must rely on a conception of language as public and extensional

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    • 1.Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation entails that meaning facts underdetermine computational behavior, forcing extensional proxies.
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    • 2.Statistical language models trained on corpora optimize for distributional co-occurrence patterns, which are irreducibly public and extensional objects.
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    • 3.Any intensional notion imported into computational systems must be operationalized as an extension before computation can proceed, collapsing the distinction.
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    • 1.Davidson's truth-conditional semantics grounds meaning in publicly verifiable satisfaction conditions, providing the only compositional framework amenable to algorithmic implementation.
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    • 2.Intensional contexts like belief reports are handled computationally via extensional surrogates such as possible-worlds indices encoded as discrete data structures, not genuine intentionality.
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    • 1.Computational linguistics involves work on speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language interfaces to databases
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    • 2.These tasks require operating on actually attested, intersubjectively accessible expressions
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    The I-language concept brushes aside certain phenomena of interest to the Externalists, who hold that the forms of actually attested expressions (sentences, phrases, syllables, and systems of such units) are of interest for linguistics. For example, computational linguistics (work on speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language interfaces to databases) must rely on a conception of language as public and extensional; so must any work on the utterances of young children, or the ef
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