You have hired a company to eradicate all insects from your

Last updated: 2/12/2023

You have hired a company to eradicate all insects from your house After they leave you find many spiders including a black widow You refuse to pay The company counters by saying that spiders are not insects but arachnids and the contract only specifies insects Do you pay now 1 Words stand for concepts 2 Lexical ambiguity words or phrases can have 2 distinct meanings 3 Context generally disambiguates but not always 4 Defining the concept in terms of necessary conditions a checklist only works partially 5 For many words there are more or less prototypical representatives greeny green 6 Sometimes there is a fuzzy boundary when does a cup become a bowl 7 Scientific definitions do not always match the popular understanding of what a word means