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From: peru@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Peter Ruhrberg)
Subject: Re: Definiton for NL & NLP
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 12:40:17 GMT
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In article <3erke3$f13@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans) writes:
>> 	The meaning of the word "dog" cannot be determined from the
>> 	combined meanings of "d", "o" and "g".
>
>With lambda calculus this and yet sillier things are technically
>possible.

May I ask how?


Peter

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