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    Logical semantics focuses on how words and expressions re... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Conceptual semantics and logical semantics are compatible enterprises rather than conflicting ones

    Logical semantics focuses on how words and expressions relate to the world and how internal semantic representations relate to the world

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    However, it seems that any perceived conflict between conceptual semantics and logical semantics can be resolved by noting that these two brands of semantics are quite different enterprises with quite different purposes. Certainly it is entirely appropriate for conceptual semantics to focus on the mapping from language to symbolic structures (in the head, realized ultimately in terms of neural assemblies or circuits of some sort), and on the functioning of these structures in understanding and t

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