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    It is not the case that Goodman's Languages of Art demonstrates that non-linguistic symbol systems are replete and lack the syntactic disjointeness of genuine languages.

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    • 1.Goodman conflates syntactic strictness with symbolic functionality; repleteness doesn't prevent genuine representation or communication.
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    • 2.Human languages themselves show substantial ambiguity and context-dependence, undermining the claimed categorical distinction from art systems.
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    • 3.Some notation systems (musical scores, choreography) exhibit syntactic properties comparable to linguistic notation despite Goodman's analysis.
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    • 1.Musical notation allows multiple symbols to denote identical pitches, violating syntactic disjointness required for true languages.
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    • 2.Pictorial systems lack discrete units with stable meanings; a line's meaning varies with context, density, and surrounding elements.
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    • 3.Natural languages require one-to-one mapping between symbols and meanings; art symbols are fundamentally ambiguous and multiply interpretable.
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