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    It is not the case that The conception of sentences as meaning representations is consistent with Montague's contention that language is logic.

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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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    • 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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