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A weekend in Stockholm

Olga had a conference in Lithuania, and found cheap tickets with a layover in Stockholm. She’s got family there, so she arranged for a weekend visit and managed to convince me to come along. Here are a few photos from the trip. If you don’t want the commentary, just check out the gallery; if you [...]

Naked mole rats

I’ve noted recently a certain zoological obsession on the part of formal semanticists. It’s not just formal semantics, it turns out, but philosophy of language in general. I hope, in fact, that this will turn into an irregular Friday feature (Friday being the day we usually have talks). Today’s speaker, Herman Cappelen, told us that [...]

Three-and-a-half horses

Formal semantics has some kind of fascination with animals. At some point I plan to list a whole menagerie of examples,1 for which this post is just a taster (so to speak). I found some fresh spoor in the question session of today’s DIP lecture (quotes are approximate, alas): Fred: We have a theory of [...]