decompositional

English

Etymology

From decomposition +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃənəɫ]

Adjective

decompositional (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to decomposition.
   • 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:

     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.

   • 1980, Status Report on Speech Research - Issues 63-64, page 246:

     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.

Derived terms

• decompositionality