Delphic ambiguity
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Delphic ambiguity
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Delphic ambiguity is forecasting which is heavily qualified or subject to misinterpretation—a practice attributed to an oracle of Delphi, who answered a question by saying that a great empire would fall if Croesus crossed the River Halys, which was a logical step in his plan to attack the Persian Empire. Such ambiguities are often presumed intentional in their superficial appearance of providing more information than critical examination of their content would support—for example, that famous pr
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2020-07-07T11:25:08Z
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