The compositionality papers
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The compositionality papers
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c2002
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- : pbk
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Rev. papers, previously published in various sources, 1991-2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780199252152
Description
This is a selection of essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation - the complex symbols in the system inherit their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of the system.;The authors argue that compositionality determines what view we must take of the nature of concepts.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. WHY MEANING PROBABLY ISN'T CONCEPTUAL ROLE (1991)
- 2. The Pet Fish and the Red Herring: Why Concepts aren't Prototypes (1996)
- 3. Why Compositionality Won't Go Away: Reflections on Horwich's 'Deflationary Theory' (2001)
- 4. What Can't be Valued, Can't be Valued, and it Can't be Supervalued Either (1996)
- 5. THE EMPTINESS OF THE LEXICON (1998)
- 6. Impossible Word Arguments (1999)
- 7. BRANDOM'S BURDENS: CRITICAL STUDY OF BRANDOM'S ARTICULATING REASONS
- 8. Churchland on State Space Semantics (1996)
- 9. All at Sea in Semantic Space: Churchland on Meaning Similarity (1999)
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780199252169
Description
Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore have produced a series of original and controversial essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind; they have now revised them all for publication together in this volume. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation: the complex symbols in the system inherit their syntactic and semantic properties from the primitive symbols of the system. Fodor and Lepore argue that compositionality
determines what view we must take of the nature of concepts. Anyone trying to figure out how language and mind work must take account of this challenging work by two leading figures in the field.
Table of Contents
- 1. WHY MEANING PROBABLY ISN'T CONCEPTUAL ROLE (1991)
- 5. THE EMPTINESS OF THE LEXICON (1998)
- 7. BRANDOM'S BURDENS: CRITICAL STUDY OF BRANDOM'S ARTICULATING REASONS
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