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    Supports→When one reading of an expression entails another, the apparent ambiguity may be due to confusion between specific and general cases rather than genuine structural ambiguity.

    Pietroski and Hornstein (2002) raise this point regarding syntactic ambiguities.

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    Ignoring for now whether or not dictionaries manage to report analyticities (is having a bushy tail really an analytic necessary condition for being a dog?), it looks like sense (ii) and (iii) differ merely by specification of gender, and so if this makes for ambiguity, it may well be hard to test for. Similarly for verbs that allow a factive and non-factive reading such as ‘report’ where the factive reading entails the non-factive. If I say ‘the police reported that the criminal was apprehended

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