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Known by Its Company

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The distributional idea holds that a word is known by the company it keeps — similar contexts, similar meanings, so context statistics can stand in for definitions.

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"Rain" and "snow" share sentences about forecasts and boots; "flour" keeps different company entirely — no dictionary consulted.

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Company records how people write, not how things are — the idea's power and its fingerprint share a root.