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    Challenges→Pronouns are a special subclass of presuppositional expressions that almost always must be bound rather than accommodated.

    If accommodation were categorically unavailable to pronouns, deictic and recognitional uses of 'he' or 'she' in out-of-the-blue contexts would be systematically uninterpretable, yet they are not.

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    Categorically unavailable(in logic and philosophy)
    Completely impossible or ruled out entirely, with no exceptions. It's the strongest kind of 'not allowed.'
    Deictic(in philosophy of language)
    Words or phrases that point to something in the immediate situation, like 'he,' 'she,' 'this,' 'here,' or 'now'—they only make sense when you know what someone is pointing at.
    Out-of-the-blue contexts(in philosophy of language)
    Situations where something is said without any prior setup or introduction—when there's no background information given yet.
    Recognitional uses(in philosophy of language)
    When you use a word to identify or pick out something you already know or have seen before, like saying 'he' to refer to a person you and your listener both recognize.
    Systematically uninterpretable

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    (in philosophy of language)
    Unable to be understood in a regular or consistent way; meaning the sentence would fail to make sense as a general rule, not just occasionally.
    accommodation(Binding theory of presupposition)
    The introduction of a new discourse referent into the discourse representation structure (DRS) when no suitable existing referent is available to bind a presupposition trigger.

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