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

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    • 1.Montague contended that language is logic, understanding sentences as unambiguous syntactic trees.
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    • 2.Research in textual entailment treats sentences as structured syntactic representations from which entailment relations are derived.
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    • 3.Statistical entailment relations based on syntactic trees (as in Dagan et al. 2008) mirror Montague's treatment of sentences as formal logical objects.
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    • 1.Montague's program requires sentences to denote truth conditions via possible-worlds semantics, not merely syntactic tree representations.
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    • 2.Textual entailment systems that operate on syntactic trees without intensional semantics omit the modal and temporal operators central to Montague Grammar.
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    • 3.Equating syntactic meaning representations with Montague's logical forms conflates the vehicle of representation with its model-theoretic content.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's later work establishes that sentence meaning is constituted by use in practice, not by formal logical structure, directly contesting Montague's foundational premise.
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    • 2.If the Wittgensteinian critique holds, treating sentences as static logical objects misrepresents natural language semantics, making consistency with Montague's contention a shared error rather than a vindication.
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    It is noteworthy that the conception of sentences as meaning representations echoes Montague's contention that language is logic. Of course, Montague understood “sentences” as unambiguous syntactic trees. But research in textual entailment seems to be moving towards a similar conception, as exemplified in the work of Dagan et al. (2008), where statistical entailment relations are based on syntactic trees, and these are generalized to templates that may replace subtrees by typed variables. Also C
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