Ambiguity of words or phrases is the ability to express more than one interpretation. It is distinct from vagueness, which is a statement about the lack of precision contained or available in the information.
Context may play a role in resolving ambiguity. For example the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another. <------I found this interesting, yet it sounds more to me as would a 76 year old person trying reason with the opposing opinion of a 16 year old.
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The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning (in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used). The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver(s) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed. An exception to this could include a politician whose "weasel words" and obfuscation are necessary to gain support from multiple constituents with mutually exclusive conflicting desires from their candidate of choice. Ambiguity is a powerful tool of political science.
The wordsmith from antiquity instead might simply suggest today, "Words which have found themselves at the mercy of present day reasoning"
Do words really evolve enough that they require continual adaptions made from one generation to the next?
Within this generational filtering of sorts, does a word stand the risk of losing the essence of its original content?
Does the so called broadening of one's thinking (process) also require the invention of words in order to accommodate a differing perspective?
The perspective which then becomes more relative or in reality is it just a form of new math where the more finite measure has been discovered which until now had not stretched what's already been established?
I once read somewhere about early space travel as to just how vague science can be. The thinkers of that epoch would do their math while trying to extrapolate the proximity as to where a space vessel launched from earth will hopefully land on the moon.
Through trial and error they discovered the importance of not only the decimal but also the value of mapping as to how each harmoniously labors within their final estimation(s).
Their harmonious purpose being, the heart of their concern as the more precise location as to where their launched space craft might actually land on the moon.
How did they (short term) resolve their fuzzy trajectory math formula?
They simply increased the length of the landing strip to somewhere near 500 miles long which was broad enough to accommodate their fuzzy math.
I can hear the landing confirmation from that space craft now, "Roger that NASA, we're Right on target"!
Now try to find a home for the words Ignorance and or Stupid in the above scenario?
How often has history proved necessary for those two words to somehow evolve?
Some might argue that their answer would depend upon context, yet I suggest that if the essence of man hasn't changed what has beyond his self reasoning?
One of the main obstacles within the pursuit of any science is that it doesn't first truthfully consider it's own limitations.
Limitation(s) to mean the very reason as to why any said science has yet to obtain the answers each also pursues while assuming those answers are also available.
The medical industry as a "Practiced" science holds the lead in this thought in my opinion. If not then why the need for medical malpractice insurance?
The mandate for medical science came out of the gates very strong. So much that during its industrial birthing it also maintained a written creed. A creed where all its practitioner's mutually upheld the mission statement as the betterment of their fellow man.
Believe it or not, but at one time Doctor's were not that well compensated for their efforts.
The same corruption which founds its way in enough to corrupt the heart of the otherwise innocent laws of economics's, has now become the same essence as the diseased heart which now thrives at the center of the Medical industry.
I also stumbled upon this (thanks Wiki-P) in my quest to know more.
James F. Wells, Ph. D., in his book, "Understanding Stupidity,"[10] defines stupidity thusly, "The term may be used to designate a mentality which is considered to be informed, deliberate and maladaptive." Dr. Welles distinguishes stupidity from ignorance; one must know they are acting in their own worst interest. Secondly, it must be a choice, not a forced act or
Try applying the thought of Lexical Ambiguity to the word "Actor" as used above?
The last time I checked that when someone ignore's established facts at some point they also had to consider those same facts leading up to deviating from the real worth which was at one time contained in them?
What does someone wager whenever they hedge their bet against absolutes in life? Is it the thought that, "Maybe those said absolutes weren't entirely "True"?
In my thinking this should shed some light on the phrase, "On the brink of destruction"
Does that qualify as Ignorant or the mindset of the rebel of sorts?
In light of the Fight or Flight philosphy which over shadows humanity, where would the thought of stupid then find itself as it bears down upon the post event reasoning as if an investigation?
I wonder if there's a word which expresses, "You've been sold a poor rendering of the NOT so obvious things in life"
Etymology as a part time endeavor is quite the task by the way if you ever find yourself bored out of your skull or if watching paint dry doesn't cut it for you.
If people individually attempt to convince humanity that we're ALL evolving into something closer to "who we've mutually assumed we are" as a broad brush stroke, I have only one question before I get in that vehicle.
Where are we going?
It's one thing to state we're ALL one nation that's under God which is in fact true, yet it will be an entirely different reality within another day that not ALL remained willing to subject themselves to the dominion as if the fullness of His authority.
The ambiguous reasoning birthed from academia will always conclude there's something more or something different being conveyed through words.
Whereas true wisdom come down from the Lord of ALL creation will ultimately decide as the need for all things to reach their expected end.
In a season where one can find Free Will, that person should not ignore or misinterpret the intentions for which that same mercy was also shown.
Anyone can choose to say they were never In-formed which could prove to be true.
Yet having been In-formed is the active work by choosing not to Ignore the divinely understood benefit of Gods words which He sent, which also became flesh so that He did dwell among us as Jesus.
What was the intent?
To not only provide the symbol of His Love having been expressed and extended towards you, but also to provide the example as to how His words are capable of becoming flesh and dwelling here on earth.
Will you receive Your Savior that was sent as Gods Son or will you turn away together with the world that's been filled with snide remarks which have seemingly become nothing more than a mysterious riddle as the result of unbelief?
John 3:16-21
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
NIV
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