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    It is not the case that Alyngton's analysis of terms like 'individual' as range-narrowed singular expressions is incorrect.

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    • 1.Alyngton's answer goes against linguistic usage.
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    • 2.Alyngton's answer goes against an established fact, since if he were right a commonly admitted argument would be formally incorrect.
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    • 1.Frege's Begriffsschrift demonstrates that singular terms and general terms operate under fundamentally distinct logical rules that resist conflation.
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    • 2.A range-narrowed singular expression still functions as a concealed general term, violating Russell's principle that genuine singular terms have no unsaturated predicative content.
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    • 3.Treating 'individual' as singular-with-narrowed-range generates referential failures in intensional contexts where genuine singular terms must succeed.
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    • 1.Medieval suppositio theory, as developed by Buridan, requires that terms like 'individual' have personal supposition ranging over multiples, confirming general-term status.
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    • 2.If 'individual' were a range-narrowed singular, the descent to singulars in standard suppositio inference would be formally blocked, contradicting accepted inferential practice Alyngton's own tradition endorses.
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