compositionality-frege-context-principle

Summary

Frege is often cited as the originator of the idea that meaning builds up piece by piece from individual words, but the evidence suggests he actually held that a word only has a determinate meaning inside a full sentence, not in isolation. This matters because any downstream argument that leans on "Frege established compositionality" is resting on a shaky attribution, and the system should not treat that standard framing as a solid foundation.