So now I'm going to talk about some features that applies to proposition's, the first one is that proposition's
have what is called composition ality, and that's related to the syntactical rules, of course.
So it's possible to combine terms in a prop. according to a framework of rules in which those words
are morphine's can be composed.
And it actually applies both to syntax, as we're talking about not only language, but also applies
to you probably compose the propositional content of your intentional state in the same manner.
So let's take this very Mickey Mouse example here that we can combine the terms for a lion and an apple
in a way saying that the lion ate the apple.
Yeah.
And that have meaning for us and that has meaning for us.
But we could equally just swap the terms around and get a completely different meaning, even if we
used exactly the same terms, but in different order saying that the apple ate the lion.
Maybe a silly example, but this is what the feature compensation analogy is about, that a the order
and the role that the word plays in the proposition, according to a framework of syntactical rules,
have a very is very important for the addition to the meaning.
That the word will have in the whole sentence, meaning so we have both meaning of each, so we have
a semantical part of each term saying that the term refers to a concept, for example, or an object
out there.
So that's the semantical part of that, and that's the reference for that term.
But there is also when they are combined, then the whole sentence get a meaning which cannot be directly
derived just by deriving the meaning of each term.
So it's the composition of the term that produces the meaning of the sentence.
The other important feature about language is what's called generativity.
So generativity is and that's kind of the key feature of any spoken language.
Without generativity, then we will be very limited in what we can say.
So generativity is the way in which actually then Klauss in a language could be composed, can be combined
in longer and longer and longer and longer sentences.
And actually it's infinitive because it's recursion.
So you can combine an ever lasting sentence, so to speak, and you can be sure that no one has ever
probably uttered that sentence before, ever.
So using those recursive recursive syntactical operations that are all support part of this index,
like, for example, subordinated courses and conjunctions in language that you compose and an infinite
number of sentences.
So also, again, Mickey Mouse example of a sentence that I can be pretty sure that no one to actually
provide after before maybe they've adopted some of these sentences, some of the parts in it, but not
the sentences that I hold.
So.
So imagine that you're at this party setting, sitting, just chatting to this nice old lady and she
says, I like this.
So just today, I thought that it would be great to swim in the ocean, but then I thought, I rather
have a peanut butter sandwich instead, which, by the way, was something that my own sisters relative,
which name I don't to remember, really disliked and once told me so, so forcefully just before the
birthday party started that late summer night here we using subclauses and conjunctions to produce a
sentence that probably could go on forever and ever.
I don't know, but that is for generativity is about of composition ality and generativity are two very
important features.
The language.