What is ambiguity?

Ambiguity is when something can mean more than one thing at the same time.

Imagine you have a bag full of different colored marbles, red, blue, green, and yellow. Now, if I say, "I picked a marble from the bag," you might think it could be any color. But if I only took out a red marble, then "picking a marble" means something very specific, it's the red one.

Sometimes, words or situations are like a puzzle that can have more than one answer. For example, when you hear "I saw a cat on the table," you might imagine a small furry animal sitting there. But maybe it was actually a big dog wearing a costume! That’s ambiguity, the same sentence could mean different things depending on what you see.

Ambiguity is like having two possible answers to one question, and both are right. It's like when your friend says, "I'm going to the park," but they might be going to play soccer or just sit under a tree, you don't know for sure! That’s the fun part of being unsure, there could be more than one way things go.