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Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)
arXiv:2607.21574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surprisal theory holds that the human processing difficulty of a linguistic unit in context is an affine function of its surprisal under some language model. I argue this claim is a tautology without further constraint: for any non-negative difficulty measure over units i