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• Modeling the Effect of Cross-Language Ambiguity on Human Syntax Acquisition.
• The focus is feasibility - is acquisition possible within a reasonable amount of time and/or with a reasonable amount of work? The approach abstracts away from specific linguistic descriptions in order to make a `broad-stroke' prediction of an acquisition model's behavior by formalizing factors that contribute to cross-linguistic ambiguity. Discussion centers around an application to Fodor's Structural Trigger's Learner (STL) (1998) and concludes with the proposal that successful computational modeling requires a parallel psycholinguistic investigation of the distribution of ambiguity across the domain of human languages. ...
• William Gregory Sakas, Modeling the Effect of Cross-Language Ambiguity on Human Syntax Acquisition. ...

• Catherine Atherton, The Stoics on Ambiguity. ...
• One could frame an inquiry about ambiguity much more narrowly than Atherton has done, but scholars with any reason to consult the book will be grateful, I think, that she has chosen to exclude little that has a bearing on the topic. Atherton explores in exhaustive detail the role of ambiguity in virtually every domain of Stoic thought: moral psychology, epistemology, grammar, semantics, logic, stylistics and rhetoric, philosophical method, and the principles of classification. ...
• But given that comparisons between ancient and modern theories are inevitable and even desirable, Atherton succeeds brilliantly in employing contemporary thought to reveal both "the uniquely Stoic motivation behind the classifications" of ambiguity as well as to point out the limitations of Stoic conceptions, e. ...
• Noting the fuzziness and vagueness of the concept of ambiguity, as well as disagreements between ancients and moderns about whether ambiguity is a good thing or not, Atherton observes that ambiguity is "very much what you make it. " The Stoics did make a great deal of ambiguity because "seeing or missing an ambiguity could make a difference to one's general success as a human being. " The substantial third chapter (91 pages, adroitly titled "Morality Talks: The Origins and Limits of Stoic Interest in Ambiguity") properly emphasizes the practical, ethical focus of Stoic philosophizing; provides a detailed summary of the central aspects of Stoic philosophy from the perspective of Stoic logical and linguistic theory; and shows precisely how making the wrong decisions, viz. ... A case where ambiguity plays a crucially important role in moral reasoning is the category of the preferred indifferents, objects of choice that are morally neutral, e. ...
• Chapter 4 examines the only explicit definition of ambiguity attributed to the Stoics, a brief passage in D. ... Atherton skilfully tracks the possible meanings of amphibolia among the notions of ambiguity, vagueness, non-specificity, and metaphor. Considerable assistance in the search for definitions comes from Diodorus Cronus who made the striking claim that there is no such thing as ambiguity. ... Galen reports Stoic views on ambiguity merely to supplement what he considers the more comprehensive classification of linguistic fallacies in Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations. ...
• A substantial section is devoted to each of six species of ambiguity: common ambiguities, homonymies, elleipsis and pleonasm, significant/non-significant part, hyperbaton and interpolation, and reference. ...
• Chapter 7 takes up one of the major roles assigned to ambiguity by the Stoics: the creation of fallacies or deceptively persuasive arguments. ...

• What is ambiguity in writing?.
• Ambiguity is any writing whose meaning cannot be determined by its context.
• Ambiguity may be introduced accidentally, confusing the readers and disrupting the flow of reading. If a sentence or paragraph jars upon reading, there is lurking ambiguity. ...

• Ambiguity.
• Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation: "leading a life of alleged moral ambiguity" Anatole Broyard. ...
• ambiguity - an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its contextloophole - an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligationamphibology, amphiboly - an ambiguous grammatical construction; e. ... , `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planesparisology - the use of ambiguous wordsdouble entendre - an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicatelocution, saying, expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression".
• ambiguity - unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaningequivocalnessunclearness - incomprehensibility as a result of not being clearevasiveness, prevarication, equivocation - intentionally vague or ambiguouslexical ambiguity, polysemy - the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meaningstwilight zone, no man's land - the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both); "but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise noise but might possibly be a signal"; "in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity"; "in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression"unambiguity, unequivocalness - clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity.
• Or again, by ambiguity of meaning,--as {pi alpha rho omega chi eta kappa epsilon nu / delta epsilon / pi lambda epsilon omega / nu upsilon xi}, where the word {pi lambda epsilon omega} is ambiguous.
• The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity.
• The sums are the scoundrel's share, and where he feared an ambiguity, you see he added something clearer.
• Some words with "Ambiguity" in the definition:.
• lexical ambiguity.

• AMBIGUITY.
• They induce ambiguity in phrases or sentences in which they occur, such as 'light suit' and 'The duchess can't bear children'. ... Ambiguity can have both a lexical and a structural basis, as with sentences like 'I left her behind for you' and 'He saw her duck'.
• The notion of ambiguity has philosophical applications. For example, identifying an ambiguity can aid in solving a philosophical problem. ... On the other hand, gratuitous claims of ambiguity can make for overly simple solutions. ... Part of the answer consists in identifying phenomena with which ambiguity may be confused, such as vagueness, unclarity, inexplicitness and indexicality. ...
• Types of ambiguity.
• Ambiguity contrasted.
• Types of ambiguity.
• Although people are sometimes said to be ambiguous in how they use language, ambiguity is, strictly speaking, a property of linguistic expressions. ...
• There are two types of ambiguity, lexical and structural. Lexical ambiguity is by far the more common. ... There are various tests for ambiguity. ...
• The above examples of ambiguity are each a case of one word with more than one meaning. ...
• Structural ambiguity occurs when a phrase or sentence has more than one underlying structure, such as the phrases 'Tibetan history teacher', 'a student of high moral principles' and 'short men and women', and the sentences 'The girl hit the boy with a book' and 'Visiting relatives can be boring'. ...

• Fallacies of Ambiguity.
• The fallacies of ambiguity all involve a confusion of two or more different senses.
• An amphiboly can occur even when every term in an argument is univocal, if the grammatical construction of a sentence creates its own ambiguity. ...
• The fallacy of accent arises from an ambiguity produced by a shift of spoken or written emphasis. ...

• Israel to Maintain Nuclear Ambiguity .
• “Our policy of ‘nuclear ambiguity’ has proven itself and will be sustained,” Sharon told Army Radio.

• Living With Ambiguity .
• that an appreciation of mystery and ambiguity is the essence of maturity implies no lack of commitment to one's own truth tradition. ... Foran, Living with Ambiguity If you want to attempt to travel through life without trouble, believe everything (be gullible) or believe nothing (be cynical), and don't be committed to anything (be 'neutral'). ... Foran, Living With Ambiguity: Discerning God in a Complex Society, Alba House, 1971, p. ...

• ambiguity .
• In itself, ambiguity is a common, harmless, and often amusing feature of ordinary language. ...
• Note the difference between ambiguity and vagueness. ...
• com} and Douglas Walton, Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity (Kluwer, 1996) {at Amazon. ...

• ART AND THE LEGAL AMBIGUITY OF THE INTERNET.
• First, I'll give a few examples of confrontational projects that deliberately use the current ambiguity of the law as a medium either in the form of digital appropriation or civil disobedience; Second I'll look at some that raise questions as a by-product of their method. ...
• Though it's always difficult to draw a distinct line between "quotation" and theft or "parody" and libel the Internet creates a whole new area of ambiguity in the meaning of Fair Use. ...

• THE AMBIGUITY OF MATTER.
• To which matter noticeably contributes -- this is the first side of matter's ambiguity which this paper will address. ...
• I merely report what I sense to be a phenomenon which seems to bear on matter's ambiguity. ...
• I am not including a separate section on psychology, but because human consciousness is the place that we experience matter's confluence with Spirit first hand, it is there that its ambiguity shows itself most clearly. ...

• Ambiguity of `The Scream' cries for answers.

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