Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to decomposition.
The Manelis and Tharp ( 1977 ) investigation failed to find a difference between affixed and nonaffixed words in either direction, a result that favored the independent entries hypothesis over either version of the decompositional hypothesis.
1980, Status Report on Speech Research - Issues 63-64, page 2461 more example
To begin with, Reynolds’ decompositional strategy invoking sub-skills such as various visual recognitional capacities (as in Marr’s theory of vision) seems to be an appeal to the so-called ‘unconscious’ processes that lead up to experience and eventually to belief.
2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecausing organic decay
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