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    It is not the case that Detecting ambiguity is essential to logical representation of natural language arguments

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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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    • 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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