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I agree, and additionally I would say we shouldn't remove ambiguity for a more basic reason: humans are very good at resolving it. There may be lots of other areas where we have systematic biases such as estimating probabilities, but dealing with ambiguity is actually one of our big strengths so it doesn't make sense to spend so much energy on avoiding it.

This is a bit speculative, but I have the feeling there is a certain kind of personality that is typically fascinated with this idea of being able to rule out ambiguity. It seems to me a tendency to overextend the idea of mathematical rigor to other areas of life.




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