Prototypes as compositional components of concepts.
The aim of this paper is to reconcile two claims that have long been thought to be incompatible: (a) that we compositionally determine the meaning of complex expressions from the meaning of their parts, and (b) that prototypes are components of the meaning of lexical terms such as fish, red, and gun...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 193; no. 9; pp. 2899 - 2928 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2016
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