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This document discusses the conceptual foundations of truth-conditional semantics. It begins by asking how language encodes thought and proposes that it must do so through a system of rules for deriving meaning, rather than through a simple list of symbols paired with meanings. The principle of compositionality states that the meaning of a complex expression is computed from the meanings of its parts and their mode of combination. The document then discusses how to define "meaning" precisely for scientific
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- Muhammad Denzel
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