Assertion: ambiguity | /r/HasProperty | essential
Facets:
value: to allow communication
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Some recent work (pdf) even formalizes Zipf-like ideas to prove that ambiguity is essential to allow communication between parties with different priors.
text: Despite the fact that ambiguity in language is an essential part of language, it is often an obstacle to be ignored or a problem to be solved for people to understand each other.
text: My feeling is that it’s not ambiguous, but Fitzgerald believed* ambiguity was essential to the “literary enterprise.”