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Third, we sometimes say of a single expression that it is ambiguous, that
is, that it has more than one meaning. (So expressions and meanings are
not correlated one to one.) Fourth, we sometimes say that one expression's
meaning is contained in that of another, as female and deer are contained in
the meaning of "doe." An important special case here is that of one sentence's
entailing another: "Harold is fat and Ben is stupid" entails "Ben is stupid."
(There is joint entailment too: "Grannie is either in the holding cell or in court
already" and "Grannie is not in the holding cell" together entail "Grannie is
in court already," even though neither sentence alone entails that.)
There are more exotic meaning facts as well. For example, some disputes
or alleged disputes are merely verbal or "only semantic," unlike substantive
disagreements over fact. X and Y do not disagree about what actually hap-