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concept:negative-polarity-item-licensing

Negative polarity item licensing

Linguistic phenomenon where NPI lexemes like 'any' require negative-polarity sentential contexts; studied as case study in CausalGym

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  • Filler-gap dependency
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    Linguistic phenomenon where interrogatives extracted from a clause leave behind an empty gap; studied as case study in CausalGym

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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

  • Negative Entropyconcept0.709
    Schrödinger's concept that living systems maintain order by extracting 'negative entropy' (order) from environment, reconciling second law of thermodynamics.
  • Sentence polarityconcept0.699
    Whether a statement is affirmative or negated; a surface feature that confounds early-layer truth probes.
  • negative valueconcept0.675
    Negative of value, equated with free-energy and surprise.