Punny logic

Analysis 75 (3):359-362 (2015)
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Abstract

Logic and humour tend to be mutually exclusive topics. Humour plays off ambiguity, while classical logic falters over it. Formalizing puns is therefore impossible, since puns have ambiguous meanings for their components. However, I will use Independence-Friendly logic to formally encode the multiple meanings within a pun. This will show a general strategy of how to logically represent ambiguity and reveals humour as an untapped source of novel logical structure.

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Funny Punny Logic.Alan Roberts - 2017 - Dialectica 71 (4):531-539.
Is this a joke? The philosophy of humour.Alan Roberts - 2017 - Dissertation, University of Sussex

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