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Frege's Context Principle

Complementary principle to Frege compositionality: word meaning only meaningful in sentence context (top-down meaning flow).

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  • Frege Compositionality
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    Formal linguistic principle: meaning of a whole depends only on meanings of parts and how they are fitted together (bottom-up meaning flow).
  • Compositionality
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    Central concept: how meaning of wholes depends on meanings of parts and their structural arrangement; multiple formulations explored (Frege, Schrödinger, Whitehead, LEGO).
  • Top-down meaning flow
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    Meaning inferred from context down to words, following Frege's context principle

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