If disambiguation is operative in many cases thought to involve context sensitivity or implicature, then ambiguity is more pervasive than standard accounts acknowledge.

Of course, given what has been discussed, this looks to be more like a case of under-specificity, or simply ignorance of a word’s meaning (in 1787), not ambiguity. As the distinction has no real legal relevance in this case, it is ignored as it generally is in common parlance. 6. Ambiguity and Indexicality: Are They Easily Told Apart? In section 2 we looked at phenomena that were not the same as ambiguity; in this section, we look at a few cases in which we might have been wrong to tear them