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Is Compositionality a Trivial Principle? |
Richard G. Heck, Jr.() |
Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA |
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Abstract Primarily a response to Paul Horwich’s “Composition of Meanings,” this paper attempts to refute his claim that compositionality—roughly, the idea that the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meanings of its parts and how they are there combined—imposes no substantial constraints on semantic theory or on our conception of the meanings of words or sentences.
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Keywords
compositionality
Horwich
meaning
semantics
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Corresponding Author(s):
Richard G. Heck, Jr.,Email:rgheck@brown.edu
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Issue Date: 05 March 2013
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