Filozofi izrađuju pojmovne naočale, ali sami ih ne nose. Oni gledaju u njih, ne kroz njih.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Show that
you are human. Change my signature. Have fun.
— Ken Shan (1997)
What you own is how much money you've given away to others
— Ken
Rockwell (2008)
Some linguistic expressions have denotations that manipulate their own continuations. Holding the syntax constant, if the denotations are allowed be abstract in certain ways, it is possible to provide a given syntax with any desired meaning relation. This places the burden of scope ambiguity on something that is neither syntactic, nor properly semantic, but at their interface: scope ambiguity is metacompositional. [C]ontinuations do not rely on type-shifting. Yet there is an unmistakable flavor of type-shifting throughout the continuation enterprise. One way to say it is that instead of type-shifting expressions, we are type-shifting composition rules.
— Chris Barker
Apparently noncompositional phenomena in natural languages can be analyzed like computational side effects in programming languages: anaphora can be analyzed like state, intensionality can be analyzed like environment, quantification can be analyzed like delimited control, and so on. We thus term apparently noncompositional phenomena in natural languages linguistic side effects. We put this new, general analogy to work in linguistics as well as programming-language theory.
— 單 中 杰
- Wikipedia, Continuation
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Compositionality
- Chris Barker, Continuations in Natural Language
- Abelson & Sussman, Nondeterministic Computing (in: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)
- Chris Barker, Continuations and the nature of quantification
- Chung-chieh Shan, Linguistic side-effects
Erratum: ovo za pojmovne naočale zapravo kaže Gary Hardcastle (Monty Python i filozofija, str. 288)