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Ah. I can see how you might infer this from my post, but I definitely do not endorse that if we accept the first than the second never holds.
It is useful in many cases to talk about concepts in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions. I use stipulative definitions like this all the time. But stipulated definitions aren't the aim of "classical view" conceptual analysis.
Like I said, my post is already too long, and I provided references if you're interested to read more studies on typicality effects.