Compositionality: An Essential Ingredient of Meaning

Samir Karmakar
Meaning in western tradition develops under the general notion of semantics, in some different way. Whenever we are discussing about the meaning of a word, our basic inclination is to delimit our enquiry under the notion of "whatness". But because of being a locus of infinite qualifications, the object of our enquiry always remains out of our reach, in this situation. Not a single answer is competent enough to explain the meaning of a word. …