Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is There Ambiguity? Is It Easier for Me to Say?
As a speaker, my job isto construct a sentence that conveys my ideas as easily and efficiently. As unambiguous anand ambiguity is something that blocks easy comprehension. So it's not that i actually aim for things potentially ambiguous, cause that'll be easier for me. It's that i'm kind of not paying attention to certain forms of ambiguity when i'm trying to choose whether to say that or not. And so the reason that intuition, according to this framework, is perhaps incorrect is because it turns out that as a speaker, i've got a pretty big job all on my own.
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