 Kent Johnson (2004) argues that the whole systematicity debate is misguided. Attempts at carefully defining the systematicity of language or thought leaves us with either trivialities or falsehoods. Connectionists surely have explaining to do, but Johnson recommends that it is fruitless to view their burden under the rubric of systematicity. Aizawa (2014) also suggests the debate is no longer germane given the present climate in cognitive science. What is needed instead is the development of neurally plausible connectionist models capable of processing a language with a recursive syntax, which react immediately to the introduction of new items in the lexicon without introducing the features of classical architecture. The “systematicity” debate may have already gone as Johnson advises, for Hadley’s demand for strong semantical systematicity may be thought of as the requirement that connectionists exhibit success in that direction.