Ziad Shihab

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by Ziad Shihab/ September 19th, 2020


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Punny logic

Analysis, Volume 75, Issue 3, July 2015, Pages 359–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anv034In LibraryLocating PDF...
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12 June 2015

Abstract

Logic and humour tend to be mutually exclusive topics. Humour plays off ambiguity, while classical logic falters over it. Formalizing puns is therefore impossible, since puns have ambiguous meanings for their components. However, I will use Independence-Friendly logic to formally encode the multiple meanings within a pun. This will show a general strategy of how to logically represent ambiguity and reveals humour as an untapped source of novel logical structure.

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