- "two", as in "two meanings"). The
concept of
ambiguity is
generally contrasted with vagueness. In
ambiguity,
specific and
distinct interpretations are permitted...
-
Syntactic ambiguity, also
known as
structural ambiguity, amphiboly, or amphibology, is
characterized by the
potential for a
sentence to
yield multiple...
- Pierre; or, The
Ambiguities is the
seventh book by
American writer Herman Melville,
first published in New York in 1852. The novel,
which uses many conventions...
- and economics,
ambiguity aversion (also
known as
uncertainty aversion) is a
preference for
known risks over
unknown risks. An
ambiguity-averse individual...
-
Ambiguity occurs when a
single word or
phrase may be
interpreted in two or more ways. As law
frequently involves lengthy,
complex texts,
ambiguity is common...
- inexactness.
Ambiguity may also
refer to:
Ambiguity (album)
Ambiguity (horse), 20th-century
racer Ambiguity (law),
contract law
situation Ambiguous name, botanical...
-
Delphic ambiguity is
forecasting which is
heavily qualified or
subject to misinterpretation—a
practice attributed to an
oracle of Delphi, who answered...
- scholars, who have
examined the
nature of that
ambiguity. In The Lord of the Rings,
Tolkien is
carefully ambiguous in
diction and in descriptions.
These often...
- is crossed.
Lexical ambiguity is a
subtype of
semantic ambiguity where a word or
morpheme is
ambiguous. When a
lexical ambiguity results from a single...
-
Attributional ambiguity is a
psychological attribution concept describing the
difficulty that
members of
stigmatized or
negatively stereotyped groups...
