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    Challenges→The cancellation of temporal ordering in 'I got drunk and I drove home (but not in that order)' does not prove 'and' is unambiguous.

    The cancellation could instead indicate the resolution of a temporal variable assigned to present tense markers.

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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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