A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct ...

As we saw in previous tutorials, the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy started out as the denial of metaphysics toward a logical reduction of the world and ordinary language, an endeavor which ...

Artificial intelligence has made extraordinary progress in processing language, vision, and even reasoning. Yet the more we ...

There is no question that my love of language is an inherited trait. My father was a lay linguist, in addition to being a teacher, writer, and public intellectual. In the last few years of his life, ...

Plato's dialogue Cratylus begins with a debate. Socrates is asked whether the sounds of words are simply arbitrary conventions, as Hermogenes suggests, or if sounds are reflective in some way of their ...

Our words, language and meanings are being stolen and then used against us. In an era when evidence, facts, analysis and science are being actively undermined, language becomes an important ...

Generative AI using large-scale language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok respond appropriately to user words just like a human. However, there is a big difference between how large-scale ...

There is no question that my love of language is an inherited trait. My father was a lay linguist, in addition to being a teacher, writer, and public intellectual. In the last few years of his life, ...