On the Compositionality Problem of Inferential Semantics
According to Fodor and Lepore,meaning is compositional,but the inferential role is not,therefore,meaning cannot be the inferential role.Brandom tries to explain the compositional feature of inferential role by sub-stitution inferences,and Peregrin tries to avoid the compositionality problem of inferentialism by distinguishing two different kinds of compositionality.Our arguments show that Brandom's and Peregrin's attempts are not success-ful.It would be better for inferentialism to abandon the idea that meaning is compositional.Moreover,there are many reasons to support this strategy.
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