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    It is not the case that Ambiguous use of a term can create the illusion that a fallacious argument is a real deduction

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    • 1.Grice's cooperative principle shows that competent speakers disambiguate terms through contextual implicature, not formal structure alone.
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    • 2.If hearers routinely resolve ambiguity via pragmatic inference, the illusion of validity collapses before deductive assessment begins.
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    • 3.Therefore ambiguity is a failure of communication, not a structural property capable of making invalid arguments appear formally valid.
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    • 1.Quine's thesis of indeterminacy of translation entails that no term has a fixed, singular meaning isolable from a broader web of beliefs.
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    • 2.If meaning is holistically determined, the boundary between 'ambiguous' and 'univocal' use is itself indeterminate, undermining the claim's diagnostic precision.
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    • 1.There are more things than there are names for them
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    • 2.Some names must therefore denote more than one thing, creating ambiguous terms and expressions
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    • 3.When the ambiguous use of a term goes unnoticed, the argument appears valid
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