Right for the Wrong Reasons

Right and Wrong Reasons for Compositionality

In this paper I would like to cast a critical look on the potential reasons for compositionality. I will, in particular, evaluate if and to which extent the most often cited reasons in favor of compositionality, viz. productivity, systematicity and inferentiality – each taken as properties of either language or cognition – may be justly regarded as justifications for compositionality. The resul...

Right and wrong reasons to be screened.

How would you feel if you found out that your 85-yearold mother (or grandmother, if you prefer) had just undergone a pelvic examination to obtain a routine Pap smear? Perhaps you’d be pleased, believing she was being provided the best possible preventive care for cervical cancer. Maybe you’d be reassured, seeing it as evidence that her doctor still cares about her. Perhaps you’d be angry, viewi...

Human DNA polymerase iota: wrong for the right reasons.

In a recent collaborative study, Thomas A. Kunkel, director of the NIEHS Environmental Biology Program, NIEHS deputy director Samuel H. Wilson, and Roger Woodgate, an investigator at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, report novel findings about DNA repair and genome stability in humans. Woodgate's laboratory recently discovered and purified polymerase iota (pol ι), o...

Right pace, wrong place.

Right cell, wrong cell.