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Ambiguity

Ambiguity is a state in which the meaning of a phrase, statement, situation, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making for several plausible interpretations. It arises when available information lacks sufficient context or a shared frame, so people cannot reliably determine what the problem is, what matters, what causes what, or what solution would…

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Linguistic forms

Philosophy

Literature and rhetoric

Mathematical notation

Mathematical interpretation of ambiguity

The social sciences

Constructed language

Biology

Religion

Music

Visual art

Social psychology and the bystander effect

Computer science

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Ambiguity

Nodes152
Edges151
Triples130
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013158
Components1

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Ambiguity

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related to Philosophy · 21
Ambiguity → Beauvoir, Being, Dasein, Dasein's, For, Heidegger, Heidegger's, However, In, In Heidegger's, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Nothingness, Others, Philosophers, Sartre's, Simone, Some, The, The Ethics
related to Religion · 12
Ambiguity → Arjan Sterken, Catholic, Chesterton, Christianity, Jews, Judaism, Many Christians, Orthodoxy, Rudolf Otto's, Scholar, The, Within
related to Computer science · 11
Ambiguity → As, DRAM, GB, Gi, In, Ki, Mi, SI, Subsequently, TB, This
related to External links · 10
Ambiguity → Ambiguous, Edward, Inconsistent/Incomplete StatementsLeaving, Indiana Philosophy Ontology ProjectAmbiguity, ISSN, OCLC, Philosophy, PhilPapersCollection, Stanford Encyclopedia, Zalta
related to Literature and rhetoric · 10
Ambiguity → Brown Eyes Blue, Don't It Make My, Groucho Marx's, How, I'll, In, Last, Scott Fitzgerald, Songs, The Great Gatsby
related to Lexical ambiguity · 8
Ambiguity → For, However, If, Meaning, One, Or, The, This
related to Names of functions · 8
Ambiguity → Examples, Exponential, MAPLE, Mathematica, Several, Sinc, The, Usually
related to Constructed language · 7
Ambiguity → Controlled, Languages, Loglan, Lojban, Some, The, These
related to Notations in quantum optics and quantum mechanics · 7
Ambiguity → Expression, Greek, It, Latin, Such, The, Then
related to The social sciences · 7
Ambiguity → Across, Attention, Foundational, In, Rather, Social, They

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Ambiguityis astate in which the meaning of a phrase0.90text
Ambiguityis apowerful tool of political science.More problematic are words whose multiple meanings express closely related concepts0.90text
Ambiguityis afactor used in determining people's responses to various situations0.90text
sin 2instance ofor it is an indication of a trivalent tensor.Examples of potentially confusing ambiguous mathematical expressionsAn expression0.80text
sin 2instance ofExamples of potentially confusing ambiguous mathematical expressionsAn expression0.80text
Ambiguityrelated to BiologyIn0.60section
Ambiguityrelated to BiologyThe0.60section
Ambiguityrelated to Computer scienceIn0.60section
Ambiguityrelated to Computer scienceSI0.60section
Ambiguityrelated to Computer scienceThis0.60section
Ambiguityrelated to Computer scienceDRAM0.60section
Ambiguityrelated to Computer scienceSubsequently0.60section

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