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by saagarjha 2672 days ago
I guess that’s where context will have to be considered. Those two are valid sentences, so presumably humans are using context to distinguish between them, right?
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The murderer came to my dinner party, and I had it all planned. In one of the ice cubes, I had frozen arsenic. The murderer would eat the same food, drink the same drink, and nobody would guess that they would die on leaving. When the evening was over, I knew what I would tell people.

Justicehadbeenserved.

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If you would like to, feel free. For myself, I think that the comment's context of showing how ambiguity may not be resolved merely be contextual information is important, and that it would not stand as strongly without it.