For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...

Ambiguity and its cousins, contradiction and paradox, are everywhere in mathematics, both in content and thinking. Strangely, the subject that appears to be the very paradigm of reason, and that is ...

In any healthcare context, the audience must interpret communications as the producers of the content intended. Humans are vastly different. How we interpret what we hear and see is idiosyncratic by ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Understanding a sentence involves taking each word to be a certain part of speech (for instance, a noun ...

Peter O'Connor received funding for this research from the Australian Government and Change2020 under the Innovation Connections Scheme. Karen Becker received funding for this research from the ...

Under a doctrine established in the 1984 case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, courts defer to a federal agency's "permissible" or "reasonable" interpretation of an "ambiguous" statute.

If ever the people on our planet faced uncertainty, now is that time. Only a few weeks ago, markets were at record highs. Optimism was rampant. You might have even found yourself humming “It’s a ...