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There is no assurance here that the extensional agreement of 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' rests on meaning rather than merely on accidental matters of fact, as does extensional agreement of 'creature with a heart' and 'creature with a kidney.'

For most purposes extensional agreement is the nearest approximation to synonymy we need care about.

But the fact remains that extensional agreement falls far short of cognitive synonymy of the type required for explaining analyticity in the manner of Section I. The type of cognitive synonymy required there is such as to equate the synonymy of 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' with the analyticity of (3), not merely with the truth of (3).

Russell's hypothesis was so arranged that nothing could bear it out or refute it. Whatever our experience might be, it would be in agreement with it.

If it were, then agreement to the analysis given of the joke as explaining why you laugh would not be a means of detecting it. The success of the analysis is supposed to be shown by the person's agreement.

For the correctness of an aesthetic analysis must be agreement of the person to whom the analysis is given.

The difference between a reason and a cause is brought out as follows: the investigation of a reason entails as an essential part one's agreement with it, whereas the investigation of a cause is carried out experimentally.

It ignores the many aspects of grammar that are not recursive, such as phonology, morphology, case, agreement, and many properties of words.

Moreover, functional morphemes such as articles, auxiliaries, and af?xes are also part of the lexicon (since each involves a pairing between a sound and some other information, both of which are speci?c to the particular language), yet the information they encode (case, agreement, ?niteness, voice, and so on) is continuous with the information encoded by syntax.

A third major syntactic device is agreement, whereby verbs or adjectives are marked with inflections that correspond to the number, person, grammatical gender, or other classificatory features of syntactically related nouns.