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    It is not the case that If entailment inference requires knowing that 'bachelor' entails 'unmarried', the inferential machinery must already encode the decomposition, making primitives epistemically prior to entailments.

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    • 1.Entailments can be recognized holistically without decomposing concepts; we grasp 'bachelor→unmarried' as a unified semantic fact.
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    • 2.Primitives themselves require justification; claiming they're epistemically prior doesn't explain why they're known or how they ground inference.
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    • 3.The inferential machinery could be purely relational; knowing entailments needn't require encoding internal structure, only relational patterns.
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    • 1.Inferential systems require structured knowledge; 'bachelor' entails 'unmarried' only if the system represents their semantic components.
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    • 2.Primitives are epistemically basic because we grasp 'unmarried' before recognizing the entailment relation itself.
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    • 3.Explanatory regress stops at primitives; appealing to entailment without prior decomposition merely postpones the explanation.
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