Without shared epistemological foundations, speakers using 'analogical reasoning' may succeed or fail by incompatible standards, creating genuine ambiguity rather than mere disagreement.

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Epistemological(Describing what type of criterion Descartes's test is): Having to do with how we know things and what counts as real knowledge, rather than questions about what actually exists.
analogical reasoning(Philosophy of inductive reasoning): A form of inference that has been analyzed as generalization from a single case, as a sampling argument, or as a distinctive argument form supported by past successes
epistemological foundations(as used to describe what speakers need to have in common): The basic, shared assumptions and methods that a group of people agree to use when figuring out what's true.
genuine ambiguity(as used in linguistics and logic): A real situation where a sentence has two or more completely different meanings that actually matter for figuring out if something is true or false.

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