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What A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis Isn't
The source introduces the central premise of the upcoming book, A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH), by clarifying what the hypothesis is not concerned with and identifying its true focus. The author establishes that the LIH does not address trivial misunderstandings that are easily resolved with context, such as basic polysemy or syntactic jokes like the Groucho Marx line, since these examples show language merely being flexible, not fundamentally failing. Instead, the hypothesis concentrates on Contestables, which are terms like 'justice' or 'freedom' that appear stable but conceal…
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