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By Zoltán Gendler Szabó

ISBN-10: 0815337906

ISBN-13: 9780815337904

ISBN-10: 1138868396

ISBN-13: 9781138868397

This publication is a serious dialogue of the primary of compositionality, the thesis that the which means of a fancy expression is absolutely decided by means of the meanings of its materials and its constitution. the purpose of this ebook is to elucidate what's intended by way of this precept, to teach that its conventional justification is inadequate, and to debate the various difficulties that experience to be addressed ahead of a brand new test could be made to justify it.

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