Structured propositions and trivial composition

Pickel, Bryan

doi:10.1007/s11229-018-1853-1

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“…10. See Hodgson (2013), Keller (2019), and Pickel (2020) for critical discussion. The debate about "unarticulated constituents", going back to Perry (1986), presupposes that the constituents of structured propositions are at least normally the semantic values of some meaningful part of the sentences that express them.…”

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“…That's a fair assumption when arguing against Intensionalism, but just as advocates of Primitivism (generally) individuate propositions finely, so they (can) individuate truth conditions finely (perhaps along the lines of Ripley 2012). See Wiggins (1992) for a similar criticism of Soames's argument and Pickel (2020) for an important independent critique.…”

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Does Compositionality Entail Complexity?

Keller

2023

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Propositions are (generally taken to be) the semantic values of declarative sentences in context. There is a long history of thinking that an important reason for taking propositions to be structured stems from the fact that the semantic values of such sentences are (typically) compositionally determined. In this paper, I argue that compositionality does not entail, nor provide good evidence for, the claim that propositions are structured. I go on to argue that there is no additional feature of declarative sentences—for example, that they are true or false—that, in conjunction with compositionality, entails or provides good evidence for the claim that the semantic values of those sentences are complex.

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Does Compositionality Entail Complexity?

Keller

2023

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“…Consider ‘George kicked the bucket’ and ‘George is six feet under.’ The meanings of these sentences are not compositional. Structured propositionalists need not, and I believe should not, endorse the “mirroring thesis” (Pickel 2018: 3, 14).…”

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Propositions as Structured Cognitive Event‐Types

Davis

2020

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The term proposition is traditionally used for the entities that are: (i) the primary bearers of truth and falsity; (ii) the entities expressed by declarative sentences; and (iii) the objects of belief, assertion, and other speech acts and propositional attitudes. 1 What entities have these properties? The most popular theories take propositions to be sets of possible worlds, Russellian n-tuples of objects and properties, or Frege's sui generis abstract particulars. A recently popular view takes propositions to be acts or states of thinking beings. The leading advocates are Hanks and

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“…Pickel (2020) offers some compelling arguments against King's and Soames' view on mapping from the structure of the sentence to a structured proposition.…”

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