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    It is not the case that If a serious research program successfully unifies allegedly disparate linguistic phenomena under one ontological category, the pluralist bears the burden of showing why parsimony should be sacrificed.

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    • 1.Unification can obscure real structural differences; forced sameness may sacrifice explanatory accuracy for aesthetic theoretical simplicity.
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    • 2.Success in unifying phenomena doesn't prove underlying ontology; multiple ontologies might equally well unify the same empirical evidence.
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    • 3.Pluralism's burden should be empirical adequacy, not parsimony; genuine differences deserve categorical distinction regardless of elegance costs.
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    • 1.Ontological parsimony is a proven epistemic virtue in successful sciences, predicting simpler theories often prove more predictively powerful.
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    • 2.Unification under one category solves explanatory problems pluralism cannot address, shifting burden of proof to those rejecting the solution.
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    • 3.Without presumption favoring parsimony, we face infinite ad-hoc category proliferation with no principled grounds for taxonomy.
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