9. Ambiguity In the last few lectures, we've talked about the phenomenon of vagueness and the slippery slope fallacies to which vagueness gives rise today. I want to start talking about a different phenomenon from that vagueness. I'm going to be talking about ambiguity, and then I'll talk about fallacies of equivocation, which are fallacies to which ambiguity gives rise. [00:00:28] But before I talk about fallacies of equivocation, let's first discuss the phenomenon of ambiguity itself. What is ambiguity and how does it differ from vagueness? [00:00:43] Ambiguity is when an expression has two or more different meanings. Now an expression can be ambiguous, even if every meaning that that expression has is perfectly precise in that case, the expression would be ambiguous, but it wouldn't be vague. Let me give you an example, consider the expression, the third member of the series, that expression is ambiguous, but it's not vague. [00:01:19] Why is it ambiguous? Well, because w...