Philosophy 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Syntactic Ambiguity, Vagueness, Weasel Word
12 Oct 2016
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Language can mislead, confuse, make certain ideas seem more profound than they really are. There are borderline cases where it is indeterminate as to whether it applies or not. There are a few kinds of ambiguity: lexical ambiguity. A single word/term that has more than one meaning in a language. Deep (in terms of a deep saying or something that is actually deep like a hole. Young (inexperienced or young of age: referential ambiguity. It"s unclear which group or thing is being referred to. Ally hit georgia and then she started bleeding . Having more than one meaning because there is more than one way to interpret the grammatical structure. We shall be discussing violence on tv (the discussion will be conducted during a tv program or violence on tv is the topic to be discussed) The terms dark and bright when describing a medium lit room. A word can be vague, even though it is ambiguous.
