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SergioBalari

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Karl Gustav Bergman

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Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers

According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

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July 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM

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Elliot Murphy

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Adopting Large Language Models as a theory of language does refute Chomsky (but not like you think)

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Adopting Large Language Models as a theory of language does refute Chomsky (but not like you think) - lingbuzz/008543

This paper is a response to Ambridge & Blything (2024), Piantadosi (2024), and similar recent papers which claim that Large Language Models (LLMs) explain how language works. We provide a series of ar...

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May 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Frances Egan

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