1. Compositionality 1.

1Freges Principle Any decent language, whether natural or artificial, contains more than just finitely many expressions. In order to learn and understand all these expressions, i.e. to associate a meaning with each of them, it does not suffice to learn just a vocabulary list: there must be some systematic way of associating meanings with forms just like there is a systematic way of construing these forms, viz. syntactic rules. Indeed, it seems plausible to assume that there is some connection between the rules that govern what an expression is and those that say what it means. An initially plausible assumption on how this connection is made is a principle that has been attributed to Frege but which, for reasons of philological accuracy, should perhaps better be called by some neutral term like: