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    Supports→The conceptual necessity of a correlative reflects grammatical habits of mind, not constraints on how reality must be structured.

    Languages vary radically in their grammatical structures yet describe the same physical world, suggesting grammar reflects contingent convention rather than reality's deep structure.

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    Key Terms

    Deep structure(in contrast to surface structure)
    The underlying meaning and grammatical relationships hidden beneath the words we actually speak or write—the logical skeleton of what a sentence really means.
    Grammatical structures(contingent grammatical structures)
    The rules and patterns that languages use to organize words into sentences—like word order, verb tenses, or how we use nouns and verbs.
    Radically(as used in philosophical analysis)
    Fundamentally or dramatically; in this context, it means languages differ in very deep and significant ways, not just minor details.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    convention

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    (Used to distinguish mere regularities from convention-governed regularities in the analysis of meaning.)
    A regularity that obtains because there is something akin to an agreement among a group of people to keep the regularity in place.
    grammar(Emergentist view, contrasted with the Essentialist view of grammar as a psychologically real generative system.)
    An artifact developed by linguists to codify aspects of a linguistic system, not a structure internalized in the minds of speakers.
    linguistic relativity(Referenced as §4.1 in the source text)
    The Sapir-Whorf theory that language influences or determines thought and perception of reality

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