All 6 Uses of
ambiguous
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Writing and editing technical manuals is what I do for a living the other eleven months of the year and I knew they were full of errors, ambiguities, omissions and information so completely screwed up you had to read them six times to make any sense out of them.†
Part 1ambiguities = things that are unclear -- because open to two or more interpretations
- He had been thrown off by an ambiguity in the term quality.†
Part 3 *ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- He wondered why that ambiguity should exist, made a mental note to do some digging into the historic roots of the word quality, then put it aside.†
Part 3
- In many cases the fragments are ambiguous; a number of different conclusions could be drawn.†
Part 3
- And yet here was one of the most ambiguous, inscrutable styles Phaedrus had ever read.†
Part 4
- But Socrates responds that this answer is ambiguous.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(ambiguous) unclear -- because there could be two or more interpretations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, ambiguous can mean uncertain or doubtful -- as in the expression "an ambiguous smile".