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Upon further reflection (trust me on this), you could never winnow away the possibilites and arrive at the meaning of "gavagai" ... that is, never unless you are making some assumptions about what the tribesman could mean (that is, if you assume definitions involving undetached rabbit parts are too unlikely to even consider).
Why languages can't be learned josh 2007
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Upon further reflection (trust me on this), you could never winnow away the possibilites and arrive at the meaning of "gavagai" ... that is, never unless you are making some assumptions about what the tribesman could mean (that is, if you assume definitions involving undetached rabbit parts are too unlikely to even consider).
Archive 2007-12-01 josh 2007
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One classic problem, which I've discussed before on this blog, is the gavagai problem.
Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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We don't have learn that gavagai doesn't change it's meaning based on the day of the week because we assume that it doesn't.
Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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One classic problem, which I've discussed before on this blog, is the gavagai problem.
Universal meaning GamesWithWords 2010
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Quine's gavagai paradox is one of the easier cases to describe, though I can see how that looks more like mentalese than grammar.
Universal meaning GamesWithWords 2010
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We don't have learn that gavagai doesn't change it's meaning based on the day of the week because we assume that it doesn't.
Universal meaning GamesWithWords 2010
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He already knows that while the number of possible meanings for gavagai is great, the number of probable meanings is very low.
Ghost Month, Teleology, Cognition, and Belief Michael Turton 2006
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He already knows that while the number of possible meanings for gavagai is great, the number of probable meanings is very low.
Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Turton 2006
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The book strains belief at times because of how stunningly unhelpful the residents of the foreign city are (this is the sort of language that Chomsky claims could not exist, so utterly different is it from any known language; it makes Quine's gavagai query look trivial in comparison).
Waggish 2009
garyth123 commented on the word gavagai
gavagai!
January 17, 2009