{"pk":31743,"title":"Presentations and This and That: Logic in Action","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The tie between linguistic entities (e.g., words)\nand their meanings (e.g., objects in the world) is\none that a reasoning agent had better know about\nand be able to alter when occasion demands. This\nhas a number of important commonsense uses.\nThe formal point, though, is that a new treatment\nis called for so that rational behavior via a logic\ncan measure up to the constraint that it be able\nto change usage, employ new words, change mean-\nings of old words, and so on. Here w e do not offer\na new logic per se; rather w e borrow an existing\none (step logic) and apply it to the specific issue\nof language change.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fh0z6xf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Miller","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""},{"first_name":"Donald","middle_name":"","last_name":"Perlis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31743/galley/22811/download/"}]}