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    Challenges→Pluralism about linguistic ontology is defensible because 'the linguistic' is a complex phenomenon whose parts belong to distinct ontological categories.

    A pluralism that cannot explain why phonology, syntax, and speech acts constitute 'the linguistic' rather than three unrelated domains collapses into eliminativism about the category itself.

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    Key Terms

    Pluralism
    The view that values are many and conflicting, and no single life can include all values or make the interpersonally correct choice among them
    Speech acts(philosophy of language)
    The idea that saying something is actually doing something—like when you say 'I promise' you're not just making sounds, you're performing the action of promising.
    Unrelated domains(as used in philosophy of language)
    Separate areas or fields of study that have no connection to each other—they don't share anything in common.
    eliminativism(Lewis was an eliminativist about religion, contrasting with his compatibilism in other domains)
    The position that the entities or concepts in question do not exist or should be rejected from one's ontology
    phonology(Linguistic analysis of syntactic components)

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    The form of speech sounds, as distinguished by linguists following Sapir and Bloomfield
    syntax(Morris/Peirce semiotic framework)
    The form of expressions in general, encompassing phonology, morphology, and sentence structure
    the linguistic(Offered in defense of ontological pluralism about language)
    A complex phenomenon whose parts belong to distinct ontological categories, rather than a single unified ontological kind.

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