CSE 642, Spring 2001

MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCES

1. A few references on "web" or "network" theories of meaning, including conceptual-role semantics and holism:

   • Quine, Willard Van Orman (1951), "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", reprinted in W.V. Quine, From a Logical Point of View, 2nd edition, revised (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980): 20-46.
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   • Quillian, M. Ross (1967), "Word Concepts: A Theory and Simulation of Some Basic Semantic Capabilities", Behavioral Science 12: 410-430; reprinted in Ronald J. Brachman & Hector J. Levesque (eds.), Readings in Knowledge Representation (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1985): 97-118.

   • Rapaport, William J. (2000), "Holism, Conceptual-Role Semantics, and Syntactic Semantics"; draft of a paper in progress; comments welcome.

   • Fodor, Jerry, & Lepore, Ernest (1992), Holism: A Shopper's Guide (Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell).