respective combinations.

On a sentence level, the principle claims that what remains if one removes the lexical parts of a meaningful sentence, are the rules of composition. The sentence "Socrates was a man", for example, becomes "S was a M" once the meaningful lexical items--"Socrates" and "man"--are taken away. The task of finding the rules of composition, then becomes a matter of describing what the connection between S and M is.

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