Lewis Carroll 27 January 1832 14 January 1898 Charles L. Dodgson Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the LookingGlass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his
••*iiI._ I had decided to attend the meeting to observe the kind of compliance tactics used in recruitment lectures of this sort and had brought along an interested friend, a university professor whose areas of specialization were statistics and sym- bolic logic. As the meeting progressed and the lecturers explained the theory be- hind TM, I noticed my logician friend becoming increasingly restless. Looking more and more pained and shifting about constantly in his seat, he was finally un- able to resist. When the leaders called for questions at the end of the lecture, he raised his hand and gently but surely demolished the presentation we had just heard. In less than two minutes, he pointed out precisely where and why the lec- turers' complex argument was contradictory, illogical, and unsupportable. The ef-
you leave a message on your answering machine that says "I am not home now." "Now" is sometimes spatial rather than in any way temporal--"Now Hillsborough Road crosses Airport Road and becomes Umstead Drive"--and sometimes not even spatiotemporal--"Now comes the first prime number 142 Pragmatics and speech acts whose square is greater than 1,000." But one job of semantic pragmatics is to refine such rules until they are adequate to the data. The intensional logician David Kaplan (1978) thinks of such rules as functions. As an intension is a function from worlds to extensions, a semantic pragmatic rule is a function from contexts to intensions. At the level of the sentence, the intension is a function from worlds to truth-values. Kaplan calls that the sentence's "content" and, as before, it corresponds to the traditional notion of a proposition. The composite semanticpragmatic rule is a function from contexts to contents; Kaplan calls that "character
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