Since the hard cases—indexicality, vagueness, metaphor—remain formally intractable, the semantic facts most in need of foundational explanation are precisely those least illuminated.

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Formally intractable(as used in logic and philosophy): Problems that are impossible or extremely difficult to solve using formal logic and mathematical methods, no matter how hard you try.
Foundational explanation(epistemology): An explanation that starts from basic, fundamental building blocks rather than assuming other things are already understood—like building a house from the ground up instead of starting from the roof.
Semantic facts(what classical semantics posits): Facts about what words and sentences actually mean or refer to in the world.
indexicality(Proposed as an alternative explanation to lexical ambiguity for modals and anaphora.): A property of expressions whose reference or interpretation is determined by features of the context of utterance rather than by a fixed, stable meaning; contrasted with ambiguity.

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