"two", as in "two meanings"). The concept of ambiguity is generally contrasted with vagueness. In ambiguity, specific and distinct interpretations are permitted...
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Syntactic ambiguity, also known as structural ambiguity, amphiboly, or amphibology, is characterized by the potential for a sentence to yield multiple...
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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...
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and economics, ambiguity aversion (also known as uncertainty aversion) is a preference for known risks over unknown risks. An ambiguity-averse individual...
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inexactness. Ambiguity may also refer to: Ambiguity (album) Ambiguity (horse), 20th-cen. racer Ambiguity (law), contract law situation Ambiguous name, botanical...
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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...
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Ambiguity tolerance–intolerance is a psychological construct that describes the relationship that individuals have with ambiguous stimuli or events. Individuals...
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Delphic ambiguity is forecasting which is heavily qualified or subject to misinterpretation—a practice attributed to an oracle of Delphi, who answered...
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of Ambiguity ushered in New Criticism in the United States. The book is a guide to a style of literary criticism practiced by Empson. An ambiguity is...
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(waveforms) s ( t ) {\displaystyle s(t)} have different ambiguity functions, and the ambiguity function is relevant when choosing what pulse to use. The...
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Dangling else (redirect from If–else ambiguity)
convention, so there is no ambiguity in the semantics of the language, though the use of a parser generator may lead to ambiguous grammars. In these cases...
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The ambiguity effect is a cognitive tendency where decision making is affected by a lack of information, or "ambiguity". The effect implies that people...
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Inherent Ambiguity of Context-Free Languages" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-09-25. Gross, Maurice (September 1964). "Inherent ambiguity of...
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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...
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Attributional ambiguity is a psychological attribution concept describing the difficulty that members of stigmatized or negatively stereotyped groups...
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context of global politics, a policy of deliberate ambiguity (also known as a policy of strategic ambiguity or strategic uncertainty) is the practice by a...
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the deliberate use of ambiguous language on a sensitive issue in order to advance some political purpose. Constructive ambiguity is often disparaged as...
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Ambiguous images or reversible figures are visual forms that create ambiguity by exploiting graphical similarities and other properties of visual system...
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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...
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been criticized as suffering from goal ambiguity. Botti, Antonio; Monda, Antonella (15 June 2019). "Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations: A Systematic...
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Serial comma (section Ambiguity)
The serial comma can serve to avoid ambiguity in specific contexts, though its employment may also generate ambiguity under certain circumstances. Usage...
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November 1947, as a book. The Ethics of Ambiguity consists of three parts and a short conclusion. "Ambiguity and Freedom," lays out the philosophical...
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Ambiguity is the third album by German metal band Brainstorm; released in 2000 this was the first with Andy B. Franck on vocals. All songs written and...
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A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel is a mathematical fiction by Indian authors Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal. It is a story about finding certainty...
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systems produce both ambiguous range measurement and ambiguous radial speed measurement using PRF from 3 kHz to 30 kHz. Ambiguity resolution finds true...
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VUCA (redirect from Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity)
unknown, and ambiguity where relevant information is available but the overall meaning is still unknown. Both uncertainty and ambiguity exist in our culture...
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Equivocation (redirect from Ambiguous terms)
explosion: one of the fundamental laws in logic Syntactic ambiguity, Amphiboly, Amphibology: ambiguity of a sentence by its grammatical structure When a white...
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Resource-based view (redirect from Causal ambiguity)
The resource-based view (RBV), often referred to as the "resource-based view of the firm", is a managerial framework used to determine the strategic resources...
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Seven Types of Ambiguity". screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 13 August 2017. Keast, Jackie; Karlovsky, Brian. ABC's 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' to air April...
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ambiguity experienced and corresponding therapy techniques to address the certain types of grief. The overall goal of therapy to cope with ambiguous loss...
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