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    It is not the case that A claim about the basis for ascribing meaning is itself a semantic or meta-linguistic claim, not a fact that grounds semantic content.

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    • 1.A fact can be both semantic in description and genuinely grounding in function—like how 'neurons fire' describes neural facts that ground thought.
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    • 2.The distinction between semantic claims and grounding facts conflates the epistemic register of a claim with its metaphysical role.
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    • 3.If all claims about meaning's basis are meta-linguistic, nothing could ever ground meaning—making the view self-undermining or trivial.
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    • 1.Claims about meaning's basis use semantic vocabulary (reference, content, truth), so they operate within semantics, not outside it.
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    • 2.Grounding requires independence: a claim that grounds X cannot itself be made of X without circularity. Semantic claims cannot ground semantics.
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    • 3.Physical facts alone (neural states, causal relations) don't logically entail semantic facts without interpretive frameworks we supply.
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