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    Challenges→Pronouns are a special subclass of presuppositional expressions that almost always must be bound rather than accommodated.

    The binding-only thesis conflates the preference for bound readings with a categorical constraint, obscuring the gradient nature of accommodation costs across presupposition types.

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    Accommodation costs(as used in pragmatics and communication theory)
    The difficulty or mental effort required for a listener to accept and adjust to an assumption a speaker is making.
    Binding-only thesis(as used in philosophy of language)
    A theory that claims something can only work in one specific way, rather than allowing for different degrees or variations of how it might work.
    Bound readings(as used in semantics and linguistics)
    In language, when a word or phrase refers back to something mentioned earlier in a specific, locked-in way (like how 'he' in 'John loves him' might or might not refer to John).
    Categorical constraint(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A hard rule that either applies completely or doesn't apply at all, with no middle ground.
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    (as used in philosophy and linguistics)
    The quality of something existing on a spectrum or scale rather than in fixed categories (like how a color gradually shifts from red to orange rather than jumping abruptly).
    presupposition(Used to distinguish conditions required for an obligation from the grounds of the obligation)
    A necessary condition for something (such as an obligation) that is not itself part of the ground of that thing

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