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    Challenges→Pluralism about linguistic ontology is defensible because 'the linguistic' is a complex phenomenon whose parts belong to distinct ontological categories.

    Ontological pluralism about a domain is explanatorily idle unless it specifies principled unity conditions that make the domain one domain at all.

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    • 1.Without unity conditions, pluralism merely catalogs disparate entities without explaining why they belong together.
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    • 2.Explanatory power requires demarcating domain boundaries; otherwise pluralism offers no principled way to include or exclude items.
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    • 3.Unity conditions transform pluralism from arbitrary multiplicity into a coherent framework with determinate scope.
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    • 1.Some domains (e.g., art forms, legal precedents) function explanatorily as loose families without requiring strict unity conditions.
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    • 2.The demand for unity conditions presupposes a false monist ideal; pluralism succeeds precisely by resisting artificial unification.
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    • 3.Practical utility in prediction and understanding can exist without philosophical unity conditions explicitly articulated.
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