Figure 1.

An illustration of two representational coding schemes for the predicates fuzzy (penguin), fuzzy (cactus), prickly (penguin) and prickly (cactus). In a role–filler binding calculus, these propositions can be represented as one-place predicates. The top panel is a cartoon illustration of how a compositional system that uses dynamic binding would bind the predicates and arguments. The bottom panel is a cartoon illustration, inspired by Dolan & Smolensky [23], of how a tensor-based system would perform binding.