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    Conceptual canonicalization is better understood as inference of important entailments than as replacement of surface logical forms with equivalent primitives

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    • 1.Reducing 'neighboring countries' to mere adjacency loses the connotation of side-by-side population existence analogous to local neighbors
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    • 2.Reducing 'walking' to 'transporting oneself by moving one's feet' fails to distinguish walking from running, hopping, skating, and bicycling
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    • 3.Reduction to primitives therefore loses significant meaning present in the original concept
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    • 1.Katz and Fodor's semantic decomposition demonstrates that primitive features like [+ANIMATE] and [+HUMAN] systematically explain selectional restrictions that surface forms cannot.
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    • 2.If entailment inference requires knowing that 'bachelor' entails 'unmarried', the inferential machinery must already encode the decomposition, making primitives epistemically prior to entailments.
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    • 3.The claim therefore mistakes the representational vehicle for its output: inferring entailments presupposes primitive decomposition rather than replacing it.
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    • 1.Jackendoff's Conceptual Semantics shows that lexical items like 'go' and 'give' share identical primitive causal-path structures, explaining cross-domain metaphor systematically.
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    • 2.If 'walking' and 'running' resist reduction because they differ in manner, this distinction is itself capturable by adding primitive MANNER features, not by abandoning decomposition entirely.
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    • 3.The supporting arguments therefore commit the fallacy of rejecting decomposition wholesale upon encountering incomplete analyses rather than refining the primitive vocabulary.
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    A question raised by canonicalization, especially by the stronger versions involving reduction to primitives, is whether significant meaning is lost in this process. For example, the concept of being neighboring countries, unlike mere adjacency, suggests the idea of side-by-side existence of the populations of the countries, in a way that resembles the side-by-side existence of neighbors in a local community. More starkly, reducing the notion of walking to transporting oneself by moving one's fe
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