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    It is not the case that A speaker who systematically draws wrong inferences from a concept (e.g., treating 'prime' as including 1) has failed to grasp the concept's constitutive sense, not merely acquired a different one.

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    • 1.The boundary between grasping-but-erring and failing-to-grasp is empirically unclear; both involve the same behavioral outputs.
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    • 2.Concepts evolve historically; what counts as constitutive rules can shift, making retrospective judgments of 'failure' contestable.
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    • 3.A speaker might grasp 'prime' fully yet systematically apply it wrong due to distraction, memory limits, or domain-specific confusion.
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    • 1.Concepts have constitutive rules that define them; violating these rules systematically indicates failure to grasp the concept itself.
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    • 2.A speaker who draws wrong inferences shows misunderstanding of logical connections, not mere disagreement about extension.
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    • 3.Distinguishing grasp from mere difference allows us to meaningfully evaluate conceptual competence and correctness.
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