>>The contention that there is no grounding because the training data is linguistic and thus can only reference a world model is disproven in "This sentence has five words"- there's real, grounded information about what "five" means within that sentence.

did you think this through?

imagine the sentence was "This sentence has four words", now extrapolate that to all the shit that can exist in a dataset and train a model on that dataset - do you know what will happen? - go ahead and think it through.