Lexicon of Arguments

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II 232
Analysis/Theory/Test/Kripke: when considering whether a given linguistic phenomenon in English is a counterexample to an analysis, one should consider a hypothetical language that resembles English, except that here the analysis is set to be correct - if now the phenomenon in question occurs in the corresponding (hypothetical) community, the fact that it occurs in English cannot refute the hypothesis that the analysis is correct for English.
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