Pragmatic Reasoning: Inferring Contexts

Pragmatic reasoning is defined as the process of finding the intended meaning(s) of the given, and it is suggested that this amounts to the process of inferring the appropriate context(s) in which to interpret the given. This suggestion is illustrated by examples from natural language understanding and visual object recognition. A formal, model-theoretic, definition of pragmatic reasoning is then presented and discussed.

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