AMBIGUITY

by 

RITA M.S

Sir Jhon Tenniel's illustration of the caterpillar for lewis carroll's Alice's Adventures

in winderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whos head can be viewed as 

being a human male's face with a pointed nose n pointiy chin or being the head and 

of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true" legs visible.

Ambiguity is  a type of uncertaintiy of meaning in which several interpretations are 

plausible. its thus an atribute of any idea or statment whose intended meaning can 

not be definitifely resolved according to a role or process with a finite number of ste

pts. 

(The ambi -part of the name reflects an idea of "Two " as in two meanings.)

The concept of ambiguity is generally contrasted with vagueness.

in Ambiguity, specific and distinc interpretation are permitted ( altough some may not

be immadiatelly apparent), whereas with information that is vague, its difficult to form

any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

Context may play a role in resolving ambiguity.

Forexample : 

the same fiece of information may be ambiguous 

in one context and unambiguous in one context 

and unambigupud in another.

 Thank ypu ;)