Abstract
The aim of the present article is to investigate the tenability of the
principle of compositionality within an impossible worlds framework.
To understand how this question is raised, the first section will
be devoted to explaining what the principle of compositionality is
and how it is compatile with a possible worlds semantics. In the
following section, some arguments from hyperintentionality will be
provided against such semantics. The third section will introduce the
notion of impossible worlds as adequate tools to accommodate such
arguments, with particular attention to Berto and Jago’s account (2019).
In the fourth section a solution to the compositionality objection
towards an impossible worlds semantics will be presented. Finally, the
paper will conclude with a possile objection towards such solution