Hacker News with Generative AI: Semantics

Mathematical meaning is not captured by meaning-as-use (willzeng.com)
“The meaning of a word is its use in the language.” - Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Philosophy, Linguistics, Semantics

7 points by sebg 7 days ago | 0 comments

Gravity is not a force (superposer.substack.com)
The debate about whether gravity is a force since it has just flared up yet again so I thought now would be a good time to give Substack a start, and wade in. The debate is partly semantics, and sometime a bit of physics-trolling but it’s weirdly heated, I think because it hinges on differing attitudes to geometry and field theory.

Physics, Science, Semantics, Debate

53 points by Luc 24 days ago | 147 comments

Programming language semantics: It's easy as 1,2,3 [pdf] (nott.ac.uk)

Programming Languages, Computer Science, Semantics

4 points by todsacerdoti 33 days ago | 1 comments