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Contexts have become a topic of major interest in linguistics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence, but no one has been able to give a definitive definition of context that is widely accepted. Yet the basic ideas for a theory of context were all present in Peirce's writings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This paper shows how Peirce's work provides a foundation that unifies ideas on context that are scattered in modern research on logic, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
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Sowa, J.F. (1997). Peircean foundations for a theory of context. In: Lukose, D., Delugach, H., Keeler, M., Searle, L., Sowa, J. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream. ICCS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027899
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