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    It is not the case that The felicity argument in P2-P3 therefore underdetermines the locus of ambiguity, since polysemy in 'and' is compatible with the observed felicity data.

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    • 1.If polysemy were correct, native speakers should show differential processing costs or explicit meaning distinctions; uniform felicity suggests unified meaning.
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    • 2.Invoking polysemy to explain observed data without independent grammatical constraints risks unfalsifiability: any felicity pattern becomes compatible with some 'and' sense.
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    • 3.Pragmatic principles (relevance, informativeness) can derive apparent 'and' senses from a single logical operator, making polysemy explanatorily redundant.
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    • 1.Felicity judgments reflect pragmatic acceptability, not semantic structure, so multiple semantic analyses can yield identical felicity patterns.
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    • 2.Polysemy in 'and' (temporal, logical, additive senses) is independently motivated by linguistic data across languages and discourse contexts.
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    • 3.If felicity alone cannot distinguish monosemy from polysemy, we need additional evidence (corpus frequency, processing, cross-linguistic patterns) to settle the issue.
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