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International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context

CONTEXT 2001: Modeling and Using Context pp 45–58Cite as

Pragmatic Reasoning Pragmatic Semantics and Semantic Pragmatics

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This paper is concerned with the conceptual foundations of pragmatic reasoning (context-dependent reasoning). A general pragmatic semantics (a semantic analysis which includes a pragmatic parameter) is given for pragmatic reasoning, the logical properties of the various forms of pragmatic reasoning are discussed, as are many examples. The semantic pragmatics (the general study of choosing or inferring appropriate contexts) for pragmatic reasoning is then discussed, with illustrations from common sense reasoning and scientific reasoning.

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  1. Applied Logic Group Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS

    John Bell

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06533, Turkey

    Varol Akman

  2. Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet

  3. Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, 2251 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1003, USA

    Richmond Thomason

  4. Philosophy Department, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK

    Roger Young

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Bell, J. (2001). Pragmatic Reasoning Pragmatic Semantics and Semantic Pragmatics. In: Akman, V., Bouquet, P., Thomason, R., Young, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_4

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