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This is a short lecture providing one of the foundational and essential concepts needed for a semester-long Philosophy of Language college/university course. The compositionality of language is that feature of language by which the meanings of whole sentences or phrases are composed out of the meanings of parts of those sentences (i.e., words). This might seem obvious, but it is the thing that allows human beings to generate and understand wholly new or novel sentences, and understand them the very first time they hear them.
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Please, never stop doing these. Much respect for what you do!
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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Same mechanical structure with some identical words, yet totally different meanings.
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What is even more amazing is that you would get a gist of the sentence's meaning even if you wouldn't know what "polka dot" or "scurvy" is. From it's structure you would know that "polka dot" is some kind of adjective (if there were more adjectives you could even know what kind of adjective it is since English has canonical ordering of adjectives, you can say "wild green dragon" but not "green wild dragon", that is ungrammatical) and that "scurvy" is an illness, because illnesses are the kind of things that you "cure". What I want to get to is that you can't actually disentangle formal and semantic features of a language which is I think a good counterargument to the "mary's room" thought experiment that I don't hear too much. There is meaning in structure.
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"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is so passé.
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The sentences "The dog bit the man" and "The man bit the dog" are composed of the same set of words, yet mean different things. I think examples like this are important to introduce alongside the concept of compositionality to make it clear that it is not just compositionality but the syntactic structure of sentences that is important for interpretation.
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I’m not in your class, nor a student in this discipline, but I love the way you put your lessons together and I watch for that reason alone. Well done.
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I've seen many of your vids and I'm about 3 times your age. You're good at what you do, bro
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The most important feature of human language is understanding a sentence that has never been said before. Even though your teachers and parents could never tell you what the sentence meant, you understood it.
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Human beings have been thinking about this issue for a long time and have only ever come up with one potential answer: compositionality. This means a sentence comprises the meanings of the individual words that make up that sense. This idea is elementary but an essential Central feature of human language. It differentiates it from the Primitive kind of communication nation that other animals might have.
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Love it. When I was that age when kids protest taking a bath my Mother would say," if you don't shower or bathe you'll get scurvy. Do you want scurvy?" I had no idea what scurvy was but, I was positive I didn't want it. I later learned the truth about scurvy in history class. I didn't feel betrayed because I knew Mom just needed to get the desired results. We never owned a Kia Rio. Keep 'em coming Professor.
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What’s funny is we all lowkey know this but hearing you talk about it makes you realize.
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Compositionality is not only characteristic of language, but of every brain function which have to do with recognizing things. We put things together based on their appearance, function, structure and properties etc. What is really interesting is that no matter with which sense we "scan" an object, - see, hear, scan ... -, we can put it together and compose what it is about. Compositionality is the most important function of the human brain, something that even animals have.
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Oh man I was excited for the philosophy of language classes!!! Thank you so much!!!
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Ooo! I'm looking forward to this series!
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at least in birds (Passerines), it's well known that they have some degree of "compositionality"; They have different sounds, associated with different things. And it is known _there are papers published on the subject- that they are capable of "creating" new combinations; even the same species can show different local "dialects" throughout its distribution range
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Thank you for posting new videos! The provide much value to education process after the main job.
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You make it look so easy...
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Hey jefferey I’ve been watching your videos for very long I love them sooo much! Please,if u ever gets the time, make video about Buddhist philosophy in general or any particular Buddhist philosopher like Nagarjuna. Thank you!
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love this. please make more content!!! can you do anything on stoicism?
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This is the/a key aspect to acquiring a new language. Chunk language into comprehensible ideas.
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@oliverniehaus7159
10 months ago
Jokes on you I said that exact sentence yesterday
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