Professor smith informed the students of her intention to be a "fair" teacher. one student thought she meant that her approach to grading was going to be objective and just. another student thought that the professor meant that she had quite models aspirations for the quality of her teaching efforts. this is an example of

This is an example of “Ambiguity”.

Ambiguity refers to a kind of vulnerability of meaning in which many understandings are conceivable. It is in this manner a trait of any thought or explanation whose proposed significance or meaning can't be completely settled by a rule or process with a limited number of steps.

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