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    It is not the case that Grice's Cooperative Principle already predicts systematic, predictable inferences without positing them as encoded linguistic knowledge.

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    • 1.Many conventional implicatures (e.g., 'but' vs 'and') show systematic differences that Grice's maxims alone cannot differentiate or predict.
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    • 2.Children and non-native speakers often fail to derive obvious Gricean implicatures despite possessing general reasoning abilities.
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    • 3.The speed and automaticity of pragmatic inference suggests encoded knowledge rather than on-the-fly derivation from cooperative principles.
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    • 1.Grice's maxims explain implicatures through rational communication principles alone, without requiring stored linguistic rules.
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    • 2.Speakers successfully coordinate inferences across novel contexts, suggesting derivation from general reasoning rather than memorized meanings.
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    • 3.The Cooperative Principle parsimoniously unifies diverse inference types under single explanatory framework, reducing theoretical entities needed.
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