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    The 'anvaya' (connective) failure criterion conflates sem... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Secondary meaning (rather than primary meaning) applies when the ordinary meaning of words cannot form a connective relationship with other words in a sentence.

    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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    • 1.Semantic well-formedness requires only grammatical structure and compositional meaning, which 'The boy is a lion' possesses.
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    • 2.Pragmatic infelicity (oddness in context) is distinct from semantic anomaly; metaphors are pragmatically odd yet semantically coherent.
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    • 3.Anvaya criteria conflating these categories incorrectly reject valid utterances based on world-knowledge rather than linguistic meaning.
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    • 1.Semantic meaning includes selectional restrictions; 'lion' doesn't semantically compose with the human-reference 'boy' in predicative position.
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    • 2.The distinction between semantics and pragmatics is itself contested; many frameworks integrate felicity conditions into semantic content itself.
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    • 3.Anvaya failure may identify genuine semantic incompatibility rather than pragmatic infelicity, making the conflation charge unsupported.
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