Forthcoming in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Holism, Mental and Semantic Ned Block Department of Philosophy New York University Abstract Mental (or semantic) holism is the doctrine that the identity of a belief content (or the meaning of a sentence that expresses it) is determined by its place in the web of beliefs or sentences comprising a whole theory or group of theories. It can ...

Compositionality Compositionality is a feature of language in virtue of which the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meanings of its constituent parts. For example, the meaning of the sentence 'John thought the dog fetched the stick' is a function of the meanings of the component phrases 'the dog fetched the stick' and 'John thought, ' whose meanings are in turn a function of their parts.

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