Lepore and Stone's disambiguator proliferation concern backfires here: postulating a temporally ambiguous 'and' multiplies lexical entries precisely where relevance-theoretic enrichment already provides a leaner, unified explanation.

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Disambiguator(distinguishing between different interpretations): Something that removes confusion by clarifying which meaning of a word you're talking about when a word has multiple meanings.
Leaner explanation(a more economical approach to language): A simpler, more efficient explanation that uses fewer assumptions or categories to explain something.
Lepore and Stone(their research on language and meaning): Two philosophers (Ernie Lepore and Tim Stone) who have written about how language works and what words mean.
Lexical entries(how many word meanings exist in language): Individual words or word meanings listed in a dictionary or language system—essentially, the official catalog of words a language contains.
Proliferation(the problem of creating too many meanings): A rapid increase or multiplication of something—in this case, the creation of too many different meanings or categories.
Relevance-theoretic enrichment(explaining how context fills in word meanings): A theory that words gain specific meanings based on the context of a conversation—the situation 'enriches' a simple word with more specific meaning without needing extra dictionary entries.
Unified explanation(one elegant solution rather than many separate ones): A single theory or framework that accounts for multiple things, rather than needing separate explanations for each case.

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