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Philosophical inquiry, for us, provides the space to examine the assumptions that underlie both linguistic theory and scientific practice more broadly. Questions about the nature of explanation, evidence, and knowledge cannot be avoided if a discipline is to remain intellectually honest. We have engaged philosophy not as an abstract pursuit detached from empirical work, but as an essential partner in making sense of what our analyses claim about mind, language, and learning. This reflective stance has shaped our view that linguistics is ultimately part of a larger human effort to understand how we know what we know.