decompositional en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃənəɫ] (UK)
Etymology
From decomposition + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to decomposition.
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: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 246: