Mission Critical Website

The point of the Mission Critical Website is to help out Critical Thinking students and give us a tool to learn about pretty much everything that goes along with critical thinking. The best part about the website is that you can read and go through all of the material at your own pace. This is particularly helpful for me because I like to take me time when reading through material. The section of the website that I spent most of my time on was definitely the Vagueness and Ambiguity section. I have always been a little unclear on this section of critical thinking so this part of the website was very beneficial for me.

Mission: Critical (Vagueness and Ambiguity): For starters, the definitions helped me better understand this section...

• A word or phrase is said to be ambiguous if it has at least two specific meanings that make sense in context.
• A word or phrase is said to be vague if its meaning is not clear in context.

The difference, then, is a clear one: If a person does not know what is meant by a phrase, then that phrase is vague to him. If a person does not know which of two or more specific meanings is intended, then it is ambiguous to him.
If i just remember these simple tools, then I can remember when to use ambiguous and when to use vague.