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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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