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

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    • 1.Grice's Modified Occam's Razor demands we not multiply senses beyond necessity when a pragmatic implicature suffices to explain apparent meaning shifts.
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    • 2.The temporal reading of 'and' arises from world-knowledge about event sequences, not from any lexical feature of 'and' itself.
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    • 3.If cancellation were merely resolving a temporal variable, we would expect infelicity in contexts where no such variable is salient, but 'and' remains felicitous regardless.
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    • 1.Relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson) predicts that connectives encode procedural meaning that constrains inferential processes without encoding propositional content.
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    • 2.Under a procedural account, 'and' encodes conjunction of propositional forms, and temporal ordering is an inferential enrichment governed by the Principle of Relevance, not a lexical ambiguity.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.The cancellation could instead indicate the resolution of a temporal variable assigned to present tense markers.
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    • 2.Alternatively, 'and' may signal multiple possible discourse relations, and the cancellation disambiguates between them.
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    • 3.Lepore and Stone (2016) argue that disambiguators are more widespread than assumed, suggesting cancellation tests may mask ambiguities rather than rule them out.
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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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