Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lycophron, Ofra Magidor and Michael Potter
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax
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Generative semantics says structure is determined by semantics as well as syntactic rules [Magidor]
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'John is easy to please' and 'John is eager to please' have different deep structure [Magidor]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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The semantics of a sentence is its potential for changing a context [Magidor]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Compositionality should rely on the parsing tree, which may contain more than sentence components [Potter]
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'Direct compositonality' says the components wholly explain a sentence meaning [Potter]
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Compositionality is more welcome in logic than in linguistics (which is more contextual) [Potter]
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Weaker compositionality says meaningful well-formed sentences get the meaning from the parts [Magidor]
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Strong compositionality says meaningful expressions syntactically well-formed are meaningful [Magidor]
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Understanding unlimited numbers of sentences suggests that meaning is compositional [Magidor]
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