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  • Rebranding Contrast as Likeness — Redundancy by Reflection
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  • The Offer Overwritten: When Purview Distorts the Exchange
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  • Misunderstanding Tenor And The Architecture Of Language
  • Problems With The Key Motivation For The Model Of Tenor In This Book
  • The Promise of Nuance, the Cost of Clarity
  • Problems With The Notion Of Context Skewing Language System Probabilities
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  • Misunderstanding Context As The Language That Realises It
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