Vagueness and ambiguity: Difference between revisions
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*[[Ambiguous sentences in English]] | *[[Ambiguous sentences in English]] | ||
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_not_is_not_is_that_it_it_is | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_not_is_not_is_that_it_it_is | ||
Revision as of 07:31, 13 August 2014
Discourse is said to be ambiguous when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space.
Discourse is said to be vague if it encompasses a large but contiguous region of concept-space.
Syntactic ambiguity is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Lojban doesn't have syntactic ambiguity.