I appreciate your remark. And, yes - it is true that different contexts suggest different interpretations. My point was this: ONCE THE CONTEXT is clear, then we (humans) HAVE TO DECIDE on SOME reading/understanding. Otherwise, we cannot communicate. Imagine real-time discourse where we utter/hear tens of sentences... to "understand" what was said, as we usually do, it means we (in the end), decide and make-up our mind one ONE reading (i.e., in the end we make a binary decision). Of course, with additional information we might retract our initial understanding and re-process the content, as does occasionally happen.

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