David Lewis in the lab: experimental results on the emergence of meaning.
In this paper we use an experimental approach to investigate how linguistic conventions can emerge in a society without explicit agreement. As a starting point we consider the signaling game introduced by Lewis (Convention 1969). We find that in experimental settings, small groups can quickly develo...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 2; pp. 603 - 622 |
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