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concept:frege-s-context-principleFrege's Context Principle
Complementary principle to Frege compositionality: word meaning only meaningful in sentence context (top-down meaning flow).
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- Frege Compositionalityassociated_withcontradictsFormal linguistic principle: meaning of a whole depends only on meanings of parts and how they are fitted together (bottom-up meaning flow).
- Compositionalityassociated_withCentral concept: how meaning of wholes depends on meanings of parts and their structural arrangement; multiple formulations explored (Frege, Schrödinger, Whitehead, LEGO).
- Top-down meaning flowassociated_withMeaning inferred from context down to words, following Frege's context principle
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- Core assertion that Frege's principle embodies bottom-up composition, while his context principle embodies top-down meaning determination.
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- Cao & Yamins principle: solution set for an easy goal is large, for a challenging goal comparatively smaller; cited as theoretical basis for multitask scaling hypothesis
- The idea that gravitational constant is a function of all matter in the universe; cited as an example of wholeness in cosmology.
- Basic data type in FCA consisting of a triple (G, M, I) representing objects, attributes, and incidence relations.
- Key epistemological claim justifying why contemplative principles are preferable to rule-based alignment
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