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    Challenges→The conception of sentences as meaning representations is consistent with Montague's contention that language is logic.

    Montague's program requires sentences to denote truth conditions via possible-worlds semantics, not merely syntactic tree representations.

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    • 1.Syntax alone cannot distinguish 'All bachelors are unmarried' from 'All unicorns are blue'—only semantics can.
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    • 2.Possible-worlds semantics captures how sentences express necessity and contingency, which pure syntax ignores.
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    • 3.Truth conditions determine when speakers succeed in communication; syntax is merely the vehicle for expressing them.
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    • 1.Possible-worlds semantics assumes abstract entities whose existence and nature remain philosophically controversial.
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    • 2.Syntactic structure constrains meaning; Montague cannot explain why 'Colorless green ideas' is semantically anomalous.
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    • 3.Truth conditions depend on context and speaker intentions, not merely formal models detached from use.
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