How Logical is Language? Sentential Logic

How much does logic structure our sentences, and what kind of logic should we use? In this week's episode, we talk about sentential logic: where it came from, how we connect things up systematically, and in what ways language looks like it moves away from pure logic.
This is Topic #44!
This week's tag language: Ukrainian!
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[@coreylevinson7339]

Interesting video! They use this type of logic a lot in mathematics (especially OR and AND symbols). I didn't know this stuff applied to linguistics. Great video as always!

[@thelingspace]

+Corey Levinson Thanks! And yeah, there's actually a bunch of math stuff in formal semantics. One of the courses I took for doing semantics was basically just intro to set theory. It's pretty interesting to see where different fields connect up. ^_^

[@thelingspace]

+Aztec Syndicalist I don't see why it's not a good idea, then! They go together nicely, and you may find opportunities within linguistics to work on programming, anyway. But I know a good number of linguistics and philosophy people, and they tend to have a really good approach to thinking about the world. Which can only help with whatever you do, including programming, should you decide you want to do that later. ^_^

[@Visranda]

wonderful. thanks for posting these videos :)

[@thelingspace]

+Visranda Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching. ^_^

[@subramaniannk3364]

Are you implying that we can understand sentences/text through logic? Does this contradict with the neural network paradigm? I am sorry if it is a dumb question!

[@InezAllen]

yay first video while I'm a matriculated linguistics major!

[@thelingspace]

+Inez Allen Great! Best of luck. ^_^

[@InezAllen]

thanks! I decided to major in linguistics shortly before you guys became a thing, and you've only reinforced my decision!

[@thelingspace]

+Inez Allen Wow, that means a lot to us here. Hope you continue enjoying the videos! And thanks for watching. ^_^

[@soupy4099]

2:00 in the online flash cartoon Homestarrunner there is a seen where a baby is studying for the baby SAT's and he says to himself "Goo goo is ga-ga. Wah wah is ga-ga. Are all goo goos wah wahs?"

[@thelingspace]

+Soupy Awesome! Yeah, Homestar Runner definitely had a lot of cleverness. I should go back and rewatch some of those. Thanks for the comment! ^_^

[@jasongretencord3326]

This reminds me of Boolean operations

[@thelingspace]

+Jay Reed Yeah, there's a lot in common there. In fact, in doing formal semantics, you often end up learning a bunch about set theory, Boolean operators, predicate logic, etc. So if you know about that already, it'll probably be helpful. ^_^

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[@mediocremarty4500]

1:42 Argument about dinosaurs not particularly groundbreaking...I see what you did there

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[@frankharr9466]

Now all I can think of is the two "ands" of Slavic languages.

[@FlashManinSpace]

But can languages have mutated states like in programming languages? Bill == friend(Jill) -> true Jill == stealsmoney(Bill) -> true Jill == no chill

[@CjLingle1]

Anyone recognize that blue cat in the background XD

[@thelingspace]

+JoshBrosh I do, but I doubt we really count in this circumstance. ^_~

[@CjLingle1]

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