GRAMMAR, LOGIC, AND SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION
MADALINA NICOLOFABSTRACT. Sowa asserts that context and background knowledge are important, since most sentences cannot be understood in isolation. Carnap makes an analogous distinction between descriptive and pure syntax: descriptive syntax is an empirical investigation of the syntactical features of given languages; pure syntax deals with syntactical systems. Davidson maintains that to have a belief it is not enough to discriminate among aspects of the world, to behave in different ways in different circumstances. Chomsky says that the grammar as a whole can be regarded as a device for pairing phonetically represented signals with semantic representations.