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    It is not the case that Therefore the inference from 'requires linguistic competence' to 'only humans qualify' conflates the vehicle of thought with its functional role.

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    • 1.Linguistic competence may require embodied, evolutionary, and social development that only humans or biologically similar animals naturally possess.
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    • 2.Functional equivalence in isolated tasks doesn't guarantee the holistic, integrated competence that supports genuine linguistic understanding.
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    • 3.The distinction between vehicle and role assumes implementational independence, which may not hold for linguistic thought tied to human cognition.
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    • 1.Functional roles (representing propositions, inferring consequences) can be implemented in different physical substrates, not just biological brains.
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    • 2.A system instantiating the same computational or functional patterns exhibits the relevant cognitive capacity regardless of its material composition.
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    • 3.Confusing the medium (language, neurons) with the capacity (reasoning, understanding) leads to unfounded exclusions of non-human systems.
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