...Jonathan Cottrell This essay gives a new interpretation of Hume's second thoughts about minds in the Appendix, based on a new interpretation of his view of composition. In Book 1 of the Treatise , Hume argued that, as far as we can conceive it, a mind is a whole composed by all its perceptions...

... g(5[þc ]) ¼ the time of c Notice that, on this setup, the lexical entries of indexicals do not encode all the information that corresponds to their lexical meanings. Lexical entries capture only the compositional component meaning, and index- icals work compositionally as simple...

... of Contemporary Philosophy , ed. Frank Jackson and Michael Smith, 636 -77. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lewis, David. 1986 . On the Plurality of Worlds . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ____. 1991 . Parts of Classes . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Markosian, Ned. 1998a . “Brutal Composition...

... of compositionality is most commonly given a functional implementation—a language L is compositional iff the meaning of a complex expression α of L is a function of the meanings of the parts of α and the syn- tactic structure of α. Equivalently, L is compositional iff synonyms can be inter- substituted salva...

... of nonfactualism. If nonfactualism about mathematical and composite objects is true, then there’s no fact of the matter whether theories that make reference to those objects are true. But our mathematical and scientific theories do just that, so there’s no fact of the matter whether those theories are true...

...Melissa Fusco This first-pass analysis does not eliminate a need for the more traditional notion of worldly content as the object of credence. The compositional contribution of the prejacent “that it is raining” to (1) is a possible-worlds constraint on how things might...

... philosophical examples. If we take it at face value for the moment, then it seems to lead to the conclusion that a building relation holds between the prime numbers and the composite, that is, nonprime, numbers: the latter are generated from the former with multiplication, since every number is the product...

... the nonidentity of a thing and its parts, but much less to offer by way of a satisfying positive approach to the difficult questions about composition and identity he engages. Still, Plato’s negative remarks prove important and instructive, and, suggests Harte, if he does not offer a full- blown theory...

... compositionally assuming the received syntax (27). Plainly, this could be done by postulating a special composition rule; but it would be nice to deliver something more general and explanatory. We leave this as an open problem for the Fregean position on de se ascription. I do not suggest that this problem...

... specifically, it argues that Kant wished to account for our cognition of the properties presupposed by the Greek conception of mathemati- cally homogeneous magnitudes: the part-whole composition and equality relations of intuitions. 159 DANIEL...

...? The obvious merit of Rumfitt's solution makes these questions worthy of further research. James Shaw's contribution lays out the motivation for a compositional semantics of truth-talk that can handle semantic circularity, and identifies a desideratum facing any such program. The motivation comes from...

... that expressivism is not a view about compositional semantics but is better characterized as a view in pragmatics. This is a good place to make it clear that I essentially agree with Yalcin's view—though, following MacFarlane 2005 , I would prefer to use the label ‘postsemantics’ rather than ‘pragmatics’. I do say...

... in accord with the laws of nature, both are performing just as their intrinsic natures require. But does Descartes even have the resources to conceive of an animal body as a distinctive object that retains its identity through changes in its material composition? Brown and Normore claim that he does...

... by some cryptic and condensed remarks made by David Lewis in defense of unrestricted mereological composition, the thesis that, for any plurality of objects whatsoever, there is a single object that they compose.4 Sider’s argument from vagueness, if successful, establishes that objects are con...

..., and so on. For every order of structural organization there is typically a corresponding semantic rule. In the case of language, for example, a given language’s lexicon is a first-order rule, while the composition rules are second order. This means understanding semantic rules broadly as mapping...

..., is better off. But it is indecent to have preferences like that. 10 The third argument, the argument I want to talk about in detail here, has to do with composition . The basic idea: Break up the action that we are looking at into proper subactions, each of which influences only the interests of one...

... are simply truth-values and that a sentence has a different semantic value at different context-index pairs. The problem with this option is that such objects do not interact compositionally; thus by definition they cannot be compositional semantic values. Two sentences can have the same truth-value...

... by providing a compositional semantics. For all the ink spilled on compositionality, interpreted weakly enough, it is an extraordinarily low bar, a purely formal constraint, which rival theories (e.g., the plan semantics of Gibbard 2003 ) meet equally well. Good semantics is not, however, just compositional...

... here: see Brook 2001 .) The history that Wuerth provides of the idea in Kant's work that the soul is simple (not a composite of parts) and immaterial is particularly penetrating and helpful. Wuerth focuses throughout the first five chapters on Kant's claims about the substantiality of the soul...

... consequence of the die tinct existences assumption seems to be that mereological composition is the only composition that there is. But where does this lead to in its turn? A few years ago, talking with Lewis, I was, in the technical sense outSmarted by him (see Dan Dennett’s Philosophical...