The use of continuity in modelling semantic phenomena

Bernard Victorri · Lingvisticae investigationes. Supplementa · 1994

Why should we use continuous models in semantics? At first glance, this question seems simple: we have to use continuous models if and only if semantic phenomena are continuous. But this last statement is wrong for at least two reasons. First, continuity or discreteness are not properties of phenomena, they are characterizations of theories upon

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