Linguists established that no two words in natural language share the exact same meaning
Is it true that Linguists established that no two words in natural language share the exact same meaning?
The claim that no two words share the exact same meaning is a foundational principle of lexicography and semantics (often called the principle of no synonymy), so no citation to a specific empirical study is needed.
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The claim touches on the principle of synonymy in linguistics, but is a truism regarding natural language lexicons (absolute synonyms virtually never exist in natural language usage). As a general linguistic observation, it does not require empirical citation.
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The claim touches on the principle of synonymy in linguistics, but is a truism regarding natural language lexicons (absolute synonyms virtually never exist in natural language usage). As a general linguistic observation, it does not require empirical citation.
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