29 Feb ambiguity

A universal phenomenon in perception, cognition, and communication in which the nature or meaning of a thing or a communication is not immediately apparent or could have multiple interpretations. In language, words and sentences exhibit polysemy or multiple meanings. Resolving ambiguity is called disambiguation.

Keywords: word
anaphora
polysemy
lexical
disambiguation
perception
cognition
communication
context
References: chaos
cognition
comprehension
context
inference
information/entropy
logic
pattern recognition
perception
psychology