[Corpora-List] What is the meaning of life?

[WHITELOCK, Pete]

Hi Adam, and a happy new year 2u2.
 
Isn't it ^life' ( a function from possible worlds to predicates that
classify life in those worlds)?
 
I thought it was Emmon Bach. I know for sure it was referenced in
Barwise and Perry, but my copy's gone walkies so I can't give you the
exact quote. I do remember they said 'which would be funny if it wasn't
such a reductio ad absurdum of man's search for ...' (and woman's,
presumably, though they don't mention her).
 
Pete
 

Pete Whitelock 
Data and Resources Development Manager 
Reference Department 
Academic Division 
Oxford University Press 

 

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Subject: [Corpora-List] What is the meaning of life?


Answer: life prime 

Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?  (I
heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no idea
if that's right)

happy new year

adam

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