A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language

1926/09/01 by Leonard Bloomfield · 8 citations
Computer Science · #Natural Language Processing Techniques

paper · doi:10.2307/408741

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Abstract

The method of postulates (that is, assumptions or axioms) and definitions is fully adequate to mathematics; as for other sciences, the more complex their subject-matter, the less amenable are they to this method, since, under it, every descriptive or historical fact becomes the subject of a new postulate.

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