composing definition
composing them together, there is nothing in that basic thesis of compositional- ism which tells us when we will have arrived at an ordinary object and can stop adding more parts. Without any extra thesis about when we have just the right set of atoms to have any specific ordinary object, compositionalism cannot give us a human animal. And by the very same measure, it also cannot give us something like a brain either. This problem of compositionalism is very familiar in the philosophical literat- ure on mereology,27 though it is usually presented as “the Problem of the Many”, and it plays on the heap-like behaviour of sets of atoms.28 This problem can be illustrated as follows:29 I would presume that there is one human being currently sitting in my chair, typing this up. And you would agree. This commits both of us to the following claims about the situation:
composing means making the humus-like end-product of the decomposition of organic waste;