“The deluded are always filled with absolutes.The rest of us have to live with ambiguity.”*

–spoken by Clancy in “Aristoi,”
  written by Walter Jon Williams

*Ambiguity is an attribute of any concept, idea, statement or claim whose meaning, intention or interpretation cannot be definitively resolved according to a rule or process consisting of a finite number of steps.

The concept of ambiguity is generally contrasted with vagueness. In ambiguity, specific and distinct interpretations are permitted (although some may not be immediately apparent), whereas with information that is vague, it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity