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    Secondary meaning (rather than primary meaning) applies when the ordinary meaning of words cannot form a connective relationship with other words in a sentence.

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    • 1.Words in a sentence must form a connective relationship through their meanings.
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    • 2.When the primary meaning of a word fails to connect with the meanings of other words in the sentence, a different level of meaning must be invoked.
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    • 3.In sentences like 'The village is on the Ganges' and 'The boy is a lion,' the primary meanings of 'Ganges' and 'lion' cannot form a coherent connective relationship with the other words.
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    • 1.Grice's theory of conversational implicature shows that non-literal meaning arises from pragmatic inference, not semantic failure at the word level.
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    • 2.The 'anvaya' (connective) failure criterion conflates semantic incompatibility with pragmatic infelicity, since 'The boy is a lion' is semantically well-formed.
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    • 3.If secondary meaning were triggered only by connective failure, systematic metaphors with no detectable semantic clash would be left without explanation.
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    • 1.Contextualism in philosophy of language, as defended by Recanati and Travis, holds that context modulates primary meaning directly without invoking a secondary semantic level.
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    • 2.If contextual saturation can adjust the primary meaning of 'Ganges' to denote a riverbank, the Mīmāṃsaka positing of a distinct secondary meaning (lakṣaṇā) is ontologically redundant.
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    However, Śālikanātha does leave room for the distinction between primary and secondary meaning in cases like “The village is on the Ganges” and “The boy is a lion.” He argues that where the ordinary meaning of words cannot form a connective relationship then there is recourse to secondary meaning. So in the case of words like “Ganges” and “lion,” the meaning–in–relation which is in connection with other word meanings is the secondary meaning, not the primary meaning. Despite this allowance for a
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