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    It is not the case that Without a privileged regimentation procedure, the entailment account collapses into triviality, since any sentence can be made to 'entail' existence claims under some interpretation.

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    • 1.The claim that triviality follows assumes regimentation procedures lack any rational constraints, but linguistic conventions and logical standards do constrain interpretation.
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    • 2.Some indeterminacy in entailment relations reflects genuine ambiguity in natural language, not a defect requiring a single 'privileged' regimentation procedure.
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    • 3.Context-relative and pluralistic interpretation frameworks can systematically distinguish valid from invalid entailments without privileging one canonical form.
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    • 1.Without principled constraints on interpretation, any linguistic expression becomes compatible with any logical conclusion through creative regimentation.
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    • 2.A theory that allows all sentences to entail existence claims explains nothing, violating the basic requirement that explanatory accounts make discriminating distinctions.
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    • 3.Privileged procedures (like canonical logical form) are necessary to determine which entailments genuinely follow versus those artificially imposed by interpretation.
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