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This paper extends Parikh’s earlier work in semantics with games of partial information and attempts to derive and represent the full content of an utterance from first principles. It also discusses various ways in which this content may be indeterminate.
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Parikh, P. Radical Semantics: A New Theory of Meaning. J Philos Logic 35, 349–391 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-005-9017-4
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