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Some philosophers, like Quine and Davidson, rejected intensional logic in favour of the good, old, austere classical first-order logic.

Take for example the large body of studies concerning the nature of definite and indefinite descriptions, which have persuasively shown that to see these locutions directly in terms of classical, Fregean quantification is inadequate and may be severely misguiding.

Such a language can be adequate to classical mathematics and indeed to scientific discourse generally, except in so far as the latter involves debatable devices such as modal adverbs and contrary-to-fact conditionals.

Such a language can be adequate to classical mathematics and indeed to scientific discourse generally, except in so far as the latter involves debatable devices such as contrary-to-fact conditionals or modal adverbs like 'necessarily'.

Morphology, together with syntax, constitutes the classical domain of ` recursion a la HCF.

The Australian language Warlpiri has virtually free word order and an exuberant system of case and agreement; Russian and Classical Latin are not far behind.

The beauty of Fodor’s original formulation is that it embraces a variety of systems that we might call ‘computational’, including ones that perform parallel computation, analogue computation (as in slide rules and adding machines), and fuzzy computation (in which graded physical variables represent the degree to which something is true, or the probability that something is true, and the physical transitions are designed to mirror operations in probability theory or fuzzy logic rather than in classical logic).

Similarly, he evaluates the idea that ‘cognitive architecture is Classical Turing architecture; that is, that the mind is interestingly like a Turing machine’ (p.

No one has ever taken seriously the idea that ‘cognitive architecture is Classical Turing architecture’, so the central premise of TMDWTW—that a Turing Machine is unsuited to solve a certain kind of problem that the human mind easily solves—is not relevant to anything.

Fodor asserts that abduction is beyond the abilities of a classical computational system, because such a system can only apply rules to circumscribed strings according to local conditions of matching and mismatching symbols.