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    It is not the case that Computational linguistics must rely on a conception of language as public and extensional

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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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    • 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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