Melons, watermelons and Large Elephant: A case against Composionality? Comments on Siebel

Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 15 (2):281-285 (2000)
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Siebel's exposition of the Principle of Compositionality, the main argument against it and Fodor's reply and its virtues, is extremely clear, so I go direct to the problem. I'll make, first, some comments on ambiguity for I think that some aspects of the problem, and the persuasive part of Lahav's objections, have to do with it; then I'll focus on Siebel's worries about Fodor's reply, and I'll defend that an improved version of the Fodorian approach shows that such worries are unsound.

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