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See also:COMPOSITION (See also:Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)
, the See also:action of putting together and combining, and the product of such action
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There are many applications of the word
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In See also:philology it is used of the putting together of two distinct words to See also:form a single word; and in See also:grammar, of the See also:combination of words into sentences, and sentences into periods, and then applied to the result of such combination, and to the See also:art of producing a See also:work in See also:prose or See also:verse, or to the work itself
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In See also:music " See also:composition " is used both of the art of combining musical sounds in accordance with the rules of musical form, and, more generally, of the whole art of creation or invention
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The name " composer " is thus particularly applied to the musical creator in See also:general
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In the other See also:fine arts the word is
more strictly used of the balanced arrangement of the parts of a picture, of a piece of See also:sculpture or a See also:building, so that they should form one harmonious whole
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The word also means an agreement or an See also:adjustment of See also:differences between two or more parties, and is thus the best general See also:term to describe the agreement, often called by the See also:equivalent See also:German word " Ausgleich," between See also:Austria and See also:Hungary in 1867
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A more particular use is the legal one, for an agreement by which a creditor agrees to take from his debtor a sum less than his See also:debt in See also:satisfaction of the whole (see See also:BANKRUPTCY)
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In See also:logic " composition " is the name given to a See also:fallacy of equivocation, where what is true distributively of each member of a class is inferred to be true of the whole class collectively
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The fallacy of " See also:division " is the converse of this, where what is true of a term used collectively is inferred to be true of its several parts
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A See also:common source of these errors in reasoning is the confusion between the collective and distributive meanings of the word " all." Composition, often shortened to " compo," is the name given to many materials compounded of more than one substance, and is used in various trades and manufactures, as in building, for a mixture, such as See also:stucco, See also:cement and See also:plaster, for covering walls, &c., often made to represent See also: |
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