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54Cognitive Theories of Concepts and Wittgenstein’s Rule-Following: Concept Updating, Category Extension, and ReferringInternational Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric 5 (1): 15-27. 2021.In this article, the authors try to answer the following questions: How can an object/instance seen for the first time extend a category or update a concept? How is it possible to determine the reference of a concept that represents a behaviour? In the first case, the authors discuss the learning of inferential linguistic competence used to update a concept through an approach based on prototype theory. In the second case, the authors discuss the learning of referential linguistic competence use…Read more
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52Explicit Communication: An Interest and Belief-Based ModelLinguistic and Philosophical Investigations 17. 2018.The paper presents an inferential model of explicit communication based on the speaker’s interests and the addressee’s beliefs. After the introduction, the paper sets out some notions concerning explicit communication within the frameworks of truth-conditional pragmatics and relevance theory. The third section describes the phenomenon of semantic underdeterminacy, and the fourth section introduces non-demonstrative inferences in communication. The fifth section presents the model. The main notio…Read more
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39Artificial Intelligence and Cognition. Proceedings of the First International Workshop AIC 2013. (edited book)CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2013.Proceedings of the Workshop on AI and Cognition
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3Sottodeterminazione semantica, interessi pratici e significato in usoEsercizi Filosofici 6 (1): 49-63. 2011.
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Interest and MeaningAnthropology and Philosophy 9 (1-2): 24-41. 2008.The problem of determining intended meaning is a key topic in the study of linguistic processes. This paper attempts to answer the question: how do agents involved in a linguistic controversy determine the intended meaning of a sentence? The main thesis of the paper is that the determination of meaning is driven by agents’ situational interests. The process is analyzed in two phases , and the thesis is respectively declined in two hypotheses. The first is that an agent’s situational interest dri…Read more
Marco Cruciani
University of Niccolò Cusano, Roma
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University of Niccolò Cusano, RomaAssociate Professor