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The Man of Many Worlds II
Hi-Phi Nation
The Conversational Scoreboard
David lewis points out that just about every single kind term seems to have its own conversational rule. The word the for example, if there are three cats in the room, abbey, bruce and carley, and someone says, the cat, which cat are they referring to? It's the cat that stands out the most. If initially bruce is the only one darting around like he's high on cat nip, bruce goes on the conversational scoreboard as most salient cat. So now when your mam says,. the cat needs to go outside, you're to interpret that she means bruce, not the other twoanother couple of rules are there to
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