Rapaport, William J. (2003), “What Is the `Context for Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition?
” (PDF), in Peter P. Slezak (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science/7th Australasian Society for Cognitive Science Conference (ICCS/ASCS-2003; Sydney, Australia) (Sydney: University of New South Wales), Vol. 2, pp. 547-552. Abstract: “Contextual” vocabulary acquisition is the active, deliberate acquisition of a meaning for a word in a text by reasoning from textual clues and prior knowledge, including language knowledge and hypotheses developed from prior encounters with the word, but without external sources of help such as dictionaries or people. But what is “context”? Is it just the surrounding text? Does it include the reader’s background knowledge? I argue that the appropriate context for contextual vocabulary acquisition is the reader’s “internalization” of the text “integrated” into the reader’s “prior” knowledge via belief revision. • Ehrlich, Karen (2004), “Default Reasoning Using Monotonic Logic: Nutter’s Modest Proposal Revisited, Revised,
