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    Challenges→Normativists who appeal to Rosen's distinction face a special challenge: they must show that semantics needs a normative construal, not merely that it could be given one.

    If normative and descriptive vocabularies are mutually irreducible but co-applicable to the same domain, then showing a normative construal is possible constitutes partial evidence that it is necessary for a complete semantic theory.

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    Key Terms

    co-applicable(describing how normative and descriptive language can both work on the same topic)
    Able to both apply or be used at the same time, in the same context or situation.
    construal(referring to a normative interpretation or reading of something)
    A particular way of understanding, interpreting, or explaining something.
    descriptive(describing the other type of vocabulary being compared)
    Language or claims about how things *actually are* in reality—just the facts without judgments about whether they're good or bad.
    domain(Both f1 and f2 have the reals as their domain)
    The set of input values over which a function is defined.
    mutually irreducible(describing the relationship between normative and descriptive language)

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    Two things that cannot be translated into or explained by each other, even though they might both apply to the same situation.
    normative(in ethics and philosophy)
    Relating to how things should be or what people ought to do, rather than just describing how things actually are.
    semantic theory(Davidsonian semantics)
    A theory that states all the facts about the meanings of expressions in a language

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