Context Matters in Semantic Ambiguity

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Now we know that we were looking at the list of surnames, not cities. We had no way of telling the difference without extending the context.

In this particular case, larger sample size would barely help, as nearly any city name can be a surname for someone and a lot of cities are named after some people.

In normal situations, our brain doesn’t even notice how tricky this kind of distinction is, because, as humans, we rarely operate without a …

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