The Compositionality Papers

by Ernest Lepore, Jerry A. Fodor, Ernie Lepore

Book Overview

Ernie Lepore and Jerry Fodor have published 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199252165
• ISBN13: 9780199252169
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"