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    It is not the case that Grounding textual entailment in human intuition conflates the normative logical relation with descriptive cognitive performance, a category error Frege explicitly warned against as psychologism.

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    • 1.We have no access to abstract logical relations except through human cognitive performance and linguistic judgment.
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    • 2.The normativity of logic itself may emerge from or be grounded in optimal human reasoning capacities, not independent of them.
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    • 3.Distinguishing normative logic from intuition doesn't require claiming intuition is entirely irrelevant to discovering logical truths.
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    • 1.Logical entailment is a normative relation between propositions independent of any mind's cognitive capacities or limitations.
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    • 2.Human intuitions about entailment vary by education, language, and cognitive bias, so they cannot constitute the normative standard itself.
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    • 3.Frege distinguished sense from psychological representations precisely to avoid reducing logical truths to mental phenomena.
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