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The paper makes some historical remarks about compositionality, the role it played in the foundations of Dependence Logic, and more broadly how the idea of compositionality has developed over the last millennium. There are also some brief remarks explaining why, in the author’s view, the idea of compositionality is unlikely to be helpful for putting the subtle non-uniform-definability results of Galliani and Yang into a broader context.
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Hodges, W. (2016). Remarks on Compositionality. In: Abramsky, S., Kontinen, J., Väänänen, J., Vollmer, H. (eds) Dependence Logic. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31803-5_6
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