A striking thing about language is that is composable in certain ways. I can make an argument in which each step of the argument is self-evident, yet the conclusion is a surprising (but true) consequence of the premises.
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But we do similar kinds of inverse inference all the time with language.
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Perhaps the best analogue is jokes, which often rely on the same kind of multiple inverse inferences about the meaning of words.
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Or certain kinds of cognitive bias - like the Group Attribution Error - which also rely on faulty inverse inference.
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Yeah, there are faulty arguments which are due to using subtly different definitions for terms at different steps.
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