ABSTRACT

It is important to make a distinction between ambiguity and undecidability. It is not at all uncommon for these two concepts to be used synonymously. In the field of human communications, ambiguity consists of presenting, simultaneously, a number of different meanings. This characteristic makes ambiguity an indispensable instrument for human beings to modulate their expression of complex affectivity. Ambiguity's presence can sometimes stimulate interpretation problems, but it is unlikely that ambiguity, by itself, could generate true pathology.