Are there standard terms for knowing or not knowing that a word covers more things than a particular person has in mind for it? It seems like a variant on the typical mind fallacy, but I think it deserves its own name.
I recently found a case of that sort of thing.
This?
"Often the sender has a certain meaning to convey with his message, hoping the receiver will interpret it correctly. This right interpretation can be called the preferred decoding or preferred reading. When the interpretation of the message is different from what was intended, this can be called aberrant decoding."
Or maybe this?
"Word-sense disambiguation [...] is identifying which sense of a word (i.e. meaning) is used in a sentence, when the word has multiple meanings."
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