Two kinds of procedural semantics for privative modification

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Primiero;Bjørn Jespersen

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Ostrava, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Logic, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we present two kinds of procedural semantics for privative modification. We do this for three reasons. The first reason is to launch a tough test case to gauge the degree of substantial agreement between a constructivist and a realist interpretation of procedural semantics; the second is to extend Martin-Löf's Constructive Type Theory to privative modification, which is characteristic of natural language; the third reason is to sketch a positive characterization of privation.