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Dispute

It means It means to argue, debate or quarrel about something. Disputes can be classified
in three categories:

Genuine dispute

Genuine disputes involve disagreement about whether or not some specific proposition is
true. Since the people engaged in a genuine dispute agree on the meaning of the
words by means of which they convey their respective positions, each of them
can propose and assess logical arguments that might eventually lead to a
resolution of their differences.

OR

In obviously genuine disputes, the parties explicitly and unambiguously disagree, either
in belief or attitude.

Example:

If ali love cricket and imran football. “ It is a dispute of thoughts” So this type of dispute
can be not be resolved.

Verbal Dispute

Merely verbal disputes, on the other hand, arise entirely from ambiguities in the language
used to express the positions of the disputants. A verbal dispute disappears entirely once
the people involved arrive at an agreement on the meaning of their terms, since doing so
reveals their underlying agreement in belief.

OR

Verbal disputes arise when a key term in the disputants’ formulation of their beliefs is
ambiguous, or when a phrase or word that is central in the dispute has different senses
that may be equally legitimate but that ought not to be confused.

Example:

Saad says: She has bought a new book and taj says: The car Martha has bought
is not new. The word "new" has two different meanings:
1Saad use new term in this sense. (Freshly purchased)
2 Taj use this word new in this sense (The edition of book in this year.)
Apparently verbal but really genuine dispute:

Apparently verbal but really genuine disputes can also occur, of course. In cases of this
sort, the resolution of every ambiguity only reveals an underlying genuine dispute. Once
that's been discovered, it can be addressed fruitfully by appropriate methods of reasoning.

OR

Apparently verbal but really genuine disputes are verbal only on the surface. The parties
involved may indeed misunderstand one another’s use of terms, but their quarrel goes
beyond this misunderstanding. Disputes of this third kind are sometimes also called
"criterial" or "conceptual."

Example:

Ali : Don’t ask your coach about it. You should use your own judgment.
Rashid : I will use my own judgment, and in my judgment, I should ask my coach.
In this example the word ‘judgment’ is used in two different meanings.
Ali is using the word judgment in the sense of stuff in discussion whereas Rashid is
using it in the sense of asking the coach not .

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