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    Challenges→There is no compelling practical reason to prefer FOL-based meaning representations over meaning representations more closely aligned with natural language structure

    There is no present reason to believe that inferences easy in FOL are difficult in meaning representations more aligned with natural language structure

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    (for some specific time t). However, a difficulty with this strategy is encountered for quantification within intensional contexts, as in the sentence “John believes that every galaxy harbors some life-form.” While we can represent the (implausible) wide-scope reading “For every galaxy there is some life-form such that John believes that the galaxy harbors that life-form,” using the Holds strategy, we cannot readily represent the natural narrow-scope reading because FOL disallows variable-bindi

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