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Strategies Against Paradox – Our paradox was this: At least one of the two common sense assumptions that led us to ask our very first question (Q*) of how it is that speakers are competent with any of indefinitely many sentences they have never encountered before has to be false, namely at least one of
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Speakers are endowed with semantic knowledge but abouta finite and definite stock of expressions they have already encountered before. And
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They are typically able to understand any of indefinitely many sentences, the moment they first come across them.
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Fischer, E. (2000). Semantic Creativity: Problem-Dissolution and Therapy. In: Linguistic Creativity. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4243-4_6
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