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Discourse is said to be ambiguous when it encompasses potentially disjoint regions of concept-space (circles 1 and 2 are separate).
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 (a polymorphic form is not disjoint).
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.
 
==See also==
*[[Ambiguous sentences in English]]
==Resources==
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity
* 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

Latest revision as of 09:03, 17 March 2015

Ambiguous discourse (upper row, circles 1 and 2 are separate) and vague discourse (lower row, one polymorphic form is not disjoint).

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.

See also

Resources