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    Supports→Ambiguity plays a more central and widespread role in sentence, utterance, and discourse interpretation than previously assumed.

    Lepore and Stone (2016) deploy disambiguation systematically across a range of interpretive phenomena.

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    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

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