Restricted Composition is Information Compression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Bird (0000-0002-6244-1579, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Alexander Bird (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 677-700 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqad034 |
| OpenAlex | W4362733195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper proposes and examines an answer to the special composition question-complex objects compress information about their parts. I start by defending fastenation for material objects and then extract from fastenation the idea that the conjoinment of parts establishes correlations among the locations and motions of those parts. I move from this to the proposal that entities are parts of some object when that object allows for the efficient, if lossy, compression of information about those parts
Composition (language · Compression (physics · Linguistics · Lossy compression · Object (grammar · Physics · Artificial Intelligence · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |