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Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
We conduct a two‐phase laboratory experiment, separated by several weeks. In the first phase, we conduct urn games intended to measure ambiguity aversion on a representative population of undergraduate students. In the second phase, we invite the students back with four different solicitation treatments, varying in the ambiguity of information ...
Robert S. Gazzale   +3 more
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Against Ambiguity [PDF]

open access: yesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2003
This paper argues that the widespread belief that ambiguity is beneficial in design communication stems from conceptual confusion. Communicating imprecise, uncertain and provisional ideas is a vital part of design teamwork, but what is uncertain and provisional needs to be expressed as clearly as possible.
Martin Stacey, Claudia M. Eckert
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A lot of ambiguity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Theory, 2022
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Zvi Safra, Uzi Segal
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Reasoning with Ambiguity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Logic, Language and Information, 2021
AbstractWe treat the problem of reasoning with ambiguous propositions. Even though ambiguity is obviously problematic for reasoning, it is no less obvious that ambiguous propositions entail other propositions (both ambiguous and unambiguous), and are entailed by other propositions. This article gives a formal analysis of the underlying mechanisms, both
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Survival with ambiguity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Theory, 2015
We analyze a market populated by expected utility maximizers and smooth ambiguity-averse consumers. We study conditions under which ambiguity-averse consumers survive and affect prices in the limit. If ambiguity vanishes with time or if the economy exhibits no aggregate risk, ambiguity-averse consumers survive, but have no long-run impact on prices. In
Guerdjikova, Ani, Sciubba, Emanuela
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Ambiguity and Communication [PDF]

open access: yesTheory of Computing Systems, 2010
Theambiguity of a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) Nf or input size n is the maximal number of accepting computations of N for an input of size n. For a ll k, r∈N we construct languages Lr,k which can be recognized by NFA’s with size k·poly(r) and ambiguity O(nk), but Lr,k has only NFA’s with exponential size, if ambiguity O(nk) is required.
Hromkovic, Juraj, Schnitger, Georg
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Ambiguous Contracts

open access: yesProceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023
We explore the deliberate infusion of ambiguity into the design of contracts. We show that when the agent is ambiguity‐averse and hence chooses an action that maximizes their minimum utility, the principal can strictly gain from using an ambiguous contract, and this gain can be arbitrarily high.
Paul Dütting   +3 more
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The Ambiguity in Immunology [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2012
In the present article, we discuss the various ambiguous aspects of the immune system that render this complex biological network so highly flexible and able to defend the host from different external invaders. This ambiguity stems mainly from the property of the immune system to be both protective and harmful.
BARNABA, Vincenzo   +2 more
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THE AMBIGUITY OF KNOWABILITY [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of Symbolic Logic, 2016
AbstractIn this paper it is shown that the Verification Thesis (all truths are knowable) is only susceptible to Fitch’s Paradox if one conflates the de re and de dicto interpretation of knowability. A formalisation shows that if one treats knowability as a complex second-order predicate, then the paradox falls apart.
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Sublogarithmic Ambiguity

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 2004
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