This paper is a reply to Mikkelsen and Hardt’s 2024 article analyzing same and different as involving an additive presuppositional element TOO akin to overt too. This hypothesis has several virtues: it provides a uniform analysis for both same and different under all of their (internal, external and comparative-like) readings; it explains several effects (poorly discussed so far) exhibited by same: parallelism and island effects, as well as analogies with too. But I show that this additive analysis faces several challenges questioning its explanatory power: the uniformity of the account rests on some stipulations, and the analogies between same/different and too are only partial. Furthermore, I show that Charnavel’s 2015 alternative account likening same/different to comparatives can derive the effects observed by Mikkelsen and Hardt without raising the problems induced by TOO incorporation.
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