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    Detecting ambiguity is essential to logical representation of natural language arguments

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    • 1.Logic must be free of issues that complicate distinguishing valid from invalid arguments by form
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    • 2.Lexical and structural ambiguity in natural language creates exactly such complications
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's later work shows that meaning is constituted by use in context, making ambiguity resolution a pragmatic achievement, not a logical prerequisite.
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    • 2.If semantic content is fixed by conversational context before logical form is assigned, ambiguity detection is downstream of interpretation, not upstream of it.
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    • 1.Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation entails that no unique logical representation of a natural language sentence is ever fully determinate.
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    • 2.If logical representation is itself indeterminate, isolating ambiguity as the primary obstacle to valid logical form misdiagnoses a deeper, irresolvable underdetermination.
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    Since the passing of the non-literal into the standardized literal is not exactly a transition whose time of occurrence is obvious, it will be difficult in some cases to tell what has been lexicalized as a different meaning and what has not (think, again, of ‘deadline’ as a case, which once meant a line the crossing of which would result in your death. Think of that next time you are late with a paper…) 5. Philosophical Issues There are a few main philosophical issues involved in ambiguity. 1
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