PHI 1101 Study Guide - Miss Alabama, Informal Logic, George Santayana
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Is the vagueness benign or malicious: man is born free. Ambiguity: do they mean man as in all human beings or man as in male: suicide, whether direct or indirect, should be strongly condemned. Ambiguous: war (problem word) on poverty , means going to resolve the issue and poverty is not resolved. Fine for parking", sign on a street in seattle. Ambiguity in the use of the word fine. It is fine to park in the area or are you going to be given a fine: the public school system cannot treat students equally; they come to the schools unequal in talent, experience and family background. Cannot doesn"t make any sense because you can. Means to treat someone with respect or that some people have more/less of something such as money/running a 10k/playing instruments ect: the party last night went until all hours.
