Re: Vague or Ambiguous?

tjb wrote:
I wrote:

I tell someone to meet me at six o' clock. In the respect that it could
mean 6am or 6pm, is the statement vague or is it ambiguous?

What if I said to meet me tonight, between 6pm and 7pm inclusive. In that
it could mean any time between and including the two, it's vague, right?
But what if I said between 18:00:00 and 18:00:05, inclusive? Is that vague
or ambiguous? How about 18:00:00 and 18:00:01, inclusive?

Thanks!


It all depends on the context.

I think every natural language expression is vague or
ambiguous to some extent. In fact, that's one of the
reasons that (formal) logic was developped in the first
place.

groente
-- Sander
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