摘要
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.
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.
