Schiffer on communication
| Abstract | How should we explain that we can understand new sentences? New sentences are sentences we encounter for the first time, sentences we haven’t used or heard before, and which we in particular haven’t assigned a meaning by fiat. To explain how we can understand new sentences has usually been regarded as an important and non-trivial task. Moreover, it has often been thought that in order to do that, at least in a great majority of new encounters, we need to appeal to the principle of compositionality. The principle of compositionality, in a standard formulation, says. | |||||||||
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