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    It is not the case that Grice's Modified Occam's Razor demands we not multiply senses beyond necessity when a pragmatic implicature suffices to explain apparent meaning shifts.

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    • 1.Frequent pragmatic derivations of meaning become conventionalized and stored as distinct senses (e.g., 'catch' meanings).
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    • 2.Native speakers rapidly access multiple meanings without pragmatic computation, suggesting they're lexically encoded.
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    • 3.The principle conflates explanation with cognitive plausibility—pragmatic sufficiency doesn't prove speakers use that route.
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    • 1.Pragmatic implicatures are psychologically real and computationally simpler than storing multiple lexical meanings.
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    • 2.Occam's Razor applied to semantics avoids proliferating senses without empirical evidence they're stored distinctly.
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    • 3.Context-driven meaning shifts (like 'The ham sandwich left') are better explained by inference than lexical ambiguity.
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