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

[Alberto Simões]

Meaning of life? 42?

Sorry, could not resist :)

Happy New Year.

On 03/01/2010 12:48, WHITELOCK, Pete wrote:
> 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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> *From:* corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] *On
> Behalf Of *Adam Kilgarriff
> *Sent:* 02 January 2010 05:46
> *To:* corpora at uib.no
> *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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