Ambiguity
Ambiguity
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Further Reading
Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Caglioti, Giuseppe. The Dynamics of Ambiguity. Berlin: Springer, 1992.
. "Perception of Ambiguous Figures: A Qualitative Model Based on Synergetics and Quantum Mechanics." In Ambiguity in Mind and Nature: Multistable Cognitive Phenomena, edited by Peter Kruse and Michael Stadler. Berlin: Springer, 1995. Psychologists, physicists, neurologists, and chemists analyze multistability in perception.
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity. London: Chatto and Windus, 1953.
Haken, Hermann. Synergetics, an Introduction: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. 2nd ed. Berlin: Springer, 1983.
Hoffmann, Roald. The Same and Not the Same. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Piaget, Jean. La construction du réel chez l'enfant. Neuchâtel, France: Delachaux and Niestlé, 1937.
Prigogine, Ilya. La fin des certitudes: temps, chaos et les lois de la nature. Paris: O. Jacob, 1996.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus logico philosophicus. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922.
Giuseppe Caglioti
English Legal System: Ambiguity
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Ambiguity:
Uncertainty in meaning. In legal documents ambiguity may be patent or latent.
A patent ambiguity is obvious to anyone looking at the document; for example, when a blank space is left for a name.
A latent ambiguity at first appears to be an unambiguous statement, but the ambiguity becomes apparent in the light of knowledge gamed other than from the document. An example is "I give my gold watch to X", when the testator has two gold watches. In general, *extrinsic evidence can be used to clarify latent ambiguities, but not patent ambiguities. Extrinsic evidence cannot be used to give a different meaning to words capable of ordinary interpretatio
Ambiguity means vagueness or uncertainty of meaning, the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways.
Ambiguity means vagueness or uncertainty of meaning, the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways.
Ambiguity
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