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    It is not the case that When competent logicians systematically disagree about which inferences are valid in a sophismatic context, the dispute concerns the rules themselves, not merely their application to an obscure logical form.

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    • 1.Obscure logical forms can generate genuine uncertainty about rule application without challenging the rules themselves.
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    • 2.Competent logicians may disagree on facts (how language works) rather than on what validity requires, appearing to dispute rules.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'rule dispute' and 'application dispute' is itself vague and contestable in sophismatic cases.
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    • 1.Sophismatic contexts expose latent ambiguities in logical rules themselves, not merely in their target propositions.
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    • 2.When equally trained logicians reach opposite conclusions, competence can't explain the gap—only rule interpretation can.
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    • 3.Application disputes require prior agreement on rules; absent that agreement, disagreement is fundamentally about the rules.
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