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Funny punny logic
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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:46 authored by Alan RobertsHumour has been a surprisingly neglected topic in philosophy. However, Noah Greenstein has recently given an intuitive schema for modelling the logical structure of puns. Having this logical structure is indeed what makes a pun punny, but I argue that it is not what makes a pun funny. In order for a pun to be funny, the components comprising its logical structure must be related to one another such that certain conditions are satisfied. By using Graeme Ritchie's linguistic model of jokes, I give these conditions in terms of those components.
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DialecticaISSN
00122017Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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4Volume
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531-539Department affiliated with
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