What propositional structure could not be

Keller, Lorraine Juliano

doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1585-7

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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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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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“…At any rate, the point remains that syntactic structure is preserved and, as King and Stanley (2005, footnote 29) say, "the more sentence structure is preserved in proposition structure, the less composition occurs in mapping from sentence to proposition". 7 See discussion in Keller (2017).…”

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Structured propositions and trivial composition

Pickel

2018

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“…Propositions may be identified with intensions, functions from possibilities to truth-values, or with more fine-grained entities. SeeCresswell (2002) for intensionalism andKeller (2013Keller ( , 2019 andMerricks (2015) for more-fine grained views.…”

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The Functional Composition of Sense

Pickel

2021

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A central dispute in understanding Frege’s philosophy concerns how the sense of a complex expression relates to the senses of its component expressions. According to one reading, the sense of a complex expression is a whole built from the senses of the component expressions. On this interpretation, Frege is an early proponent of structured propositions. A rival reading says that senses compose by functional application: the sense of a complex expression is the value of the function denoted by its functional component for the arguments denoted by its remaining components. I argue that two non-negotiable Fregean theses entail that senses compose by functional application. One thesis is that referents compose by functional application. The other thesis is that an expression in an indirect context refers to its customary sense.

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What propositional structure could not be

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Does Compositionality Entail Complexity?

Does Compositionality Entail Complexity?

Structured propositions and trivial composition

The Functional Composition of Sense

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