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    Challenges→Even within a single language, translation already occurs.

    If intra-linguistic ambiguity already constituted translation, then successful communication within a language would be inexplicable, yet such communication is demonstrably routine.

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    Demonstrably(indicating that the evolutionary change can actually be shown to happen)
    Proven or shown clearly through evidence that can be observed or tested.
    Intra-linguistic ambiguity(as used in philosophy of language)
    When words or sentences within a single language can be understood in multiple different ways—like the sentence 'I saw the man with the telescope' could mean either the man had a telescope or I used a telescope to see him.
    inexplicable(as used in general philosophical reasoning)
    Impossible to explain or account for logically; something that shouldn't be able to happen given what we think we know.
    translation(Cartesian relational motion; Pr II 30)
    The motion of a body relative to its neighboring bodies, i.e., a change of contiguous neighborhood.

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