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    It is not the case that If psychological reality of grammar does not require explicit symbolic representation of rules, P2's classical assumption breaks the inference chain from grammar to innate abstract concepts.

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    • 1.Distributed representations still implement abstract structural constraints—they just embody rules implicitly rather than eliminating the abstraction requirement.
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    • 2.The claim conflates *explicit consciousness* of rules with their psychological reality; innate abstract concepts can be real and non-symbolic without this inference breaking.
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    • 3.Neural implementation details don't determine whether concepts are abstract or innate—substrate independence means symbolic and connectionist systems can instantiate identical abstractions.
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    • 1.Neural networks learn language patterns without explicit rule symbols, suggesting grammar operates through distributed representations rather than symbolic rules.
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    • 2.If innate concepts required explicit symbolic representation, children couldn't acquire language before developing meta-linguistic awareness of rules.
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    • 3.Implicit knowledge (like motor skills) can be fundamentally real without conscious symbolic formulation, undermining the symbolic representation requirement.
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