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Writing Can Never Be Completely Unambiguous

The faith that writing could give unambiguous expression to ideas was one of the keystones of the modern era. Texts, so long as they were written soberly and read sensitively, were taken as stable centres of meaning. During the course of the twentieth century, this faith has come undone. David olson agrees that writing can never be entirely unambiguous.

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