Profundity is spicy ambiguity.
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The opposites of ambiguity are vagueness and legibility.
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hard to explain in a nutshell but ambiguity is a type of clarity not vagueness
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If you mean what I think you do, I’ve used the duck-rabbit illusion to explain this. The ambiguity can exist only because there is no uncertainty (as in contaminant noise or incompleteness). It’s 100% wysiwyg, you just don’t one clear thing. Not sure of void version though.
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Peirce said that the surefire way to cause conviction is vagueness. The reason is that vagueness masks aspects that you haven't spotted. Semiosis requires clarity to proceed. When it halts, we can feel like we've got nothing else to consider before making a decision.
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Note: this was in the period when Peirce was still taking seriously the idea that semiosis continued infinitely and doesn't have natural ends. His later thought seems to have differed on this. So... some conclusions can probably be definitive without resort to vagueness.
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