Computers Are Syntax All the Way Down: Reply to Bozşahin

Minds and Machines 29 (2):227-237 (2019)
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A response to a recent critique by Cem Bozşahin of the theory of syntactic semantics as it applies to Helen Keller, and some applications of the theory to the philosophy of computer science.

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