It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning ( for example, naming a state of war " peace ").

Nevertheless there are many instances of ambiguity in the corpus, some of which may be intentional, and some evidence that, rather than merely accepting it from expediency, skalds favoured contorted word order for its own sake.

Writer – director Robin Hardy has stated that the ambiguity was intentional, but that fans of The Wicker Man will immediately recognise Lee's character as Lord Summerisle.

Enrico Livrea suggests that both interpretations are correct, and the ambiguity of the section is intentional.

I wrote it that way on purpose, leaving some intentional ambiguity, because I wanted it to lie somewhat between both camps and not entirely in either.

This intentional ambiguity allows for the seeds of the “ polyphonic ” novel, in which narratologic and character voices are set free to speak subversively or shockingly, but without the writer of the text stepping between character and reader.

One of the most common criticisms of the movement and its leadership is that of intellectual dishonesty, in the form of misleading impressions created by the use of rhetoric, intentional ambiguity, and misrepresented evidence.

This, along with the intentional ambiguity of the finale caused bafflement and a great deal of anger amongst the public and McGoohan claimed he was ‘ hounded ’ out of the country after the episode was shown.

Biological warfare is the intentional use of living microorganisms or their toxic products for the purpose of destroying or reducing the military effectiveness of man.

every snake hide is noticeably longer than its carcass and intentional stretching presents no difficulty to the unscrupulous explorer.

It is false to be certain of having discovered in the language of Beowulf such effects as intentional irony.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

Audio signal processing, sometimes referred to as audio processing, is the intentional alteration of auditory signals, or sound, often through an audio effect or effects unit.

Noise is an undesirable but inevitable product of the electronic devices and components ; also, much noise results from intentional economies of manufacture and design time.

Amok episodes of this kind normally end with the attacker being killed by bystanders or committing suicide, eliciting theories that amok may be a form of intentional suicide in cultures where suicide is heavily stigmatized.

A subset of the base on balls, an intentional base on balls ( IBB ) or intentional walk is when the pitcher deliberately pitches the ball away from the batter in order to issue a base on balls.

An intentional walk is signaled by the catcher standing and extending one arm to the side away from the batter.

A ball pitched in this manner is called an intentional ball and counts as a ball in the pitcher's pitch count.

In order to count as an intentional ball, the ball must be legally pitched, i. e., the pitcher's foot must be on the pitcher's rubber, the catcher must be in the catcher's box, and the batter must be in the batter's box appearing ready to take a pitch at the time the ball is thrown.

Another risk taken by the defensive team in issuing a base on balls is that since intentional balls must be pitched in a legal manner, they can legally become wild pitches or passed balls.

Likewise, a baserunner can attempt to steal a base, or the batter can choose to swing at an intentional ball ; however, these rarely occur since taking these risks is rarely more beneficial to the offensive team than allowing the walk.

A common nickname for the intentional walk is four-finger salute, since most managers call for an intentional walk by holding up four fingers.

Barry Bonds is the all time record holder with 688 intentional bases on balls.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents.

Two million years ago, the only sign of fire is burnt earth with human remains, which most other anthropologists consider to be mere coincidence rather than evidence of intentional fire.

His own view is that consciousness has subjective, first-person causal powers by being essentially intentional due simply to the way human brains function biologically ; conscious persons can perform computations, but consciousness is not inherently computational the way computer programs are.

Another way of putting the argument is to say computational computer programs can pass the Turing test for processing the syntax of a language, but that semantics cannot be reduced to syntax in the way Strong AI advocates hoped: processing semantics is conscious and intentional because we use semantics to consciously produce meaning by what we say.

This meant to look at these concepts from the standpoint of the paradigm of critical psychology, thereby integrating their useful insights into critical psychology while at the same time identifying and criticizing their limiting implications while ( which in the case of S – R psychology were the rhetorical elimination of the subject and intentional action, and in the case of cognitive psychology which did take into account subjective motives and intentional actions, methodological individualism ).

In the book Taylor argued against the widespread belief that the outbreak of the Second World War-by which Taylor specifically meant the war between Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom and France that broke out in September 1939-was the result of an intentional plan on the part of Hitler.

It also kept him out of military service during World War II and, while being kept out of the major French universities meant that he had to travel a great deal for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities, and did so throughout his career.

The pulling of the text between narrative strategies, and between systems of mythology, medicine and philosophy can be arresting, and sometimes annoying, but these are disjunctions which are meant to be there, and the clashes and shifts in register which we see in this work are most probably intentional.

The term " nocebo response " originally only meant an unpredictable unintentional belief-generated injurious response to an inert procedure, but there is an emerging practice of labelling drugs that produce unpleasant consequences as " nocebo drugs " meaning that the term " nocebo response " may be used to label an intentional, entirely pharmacologically-generated and quite predictably injurious outcome that has ensued from the administration of an active ( nocebo ) drug.

The muffled intro on " Planet of the Shapes " has the intentional addition of record static and crackles, followed by the sound of a needle skipping grooves then scratching across the record, also meant to infuriate fans, who bought the vinyl edition, by making them think their copy was less than mint.

Other faiths are even more subtle: the doctrine of karma shared by Buddhism and Hinduism is a divine law similar to divine retribution but without the connotation of punishment: our acts, good or bad, intentional or unintentional, reflect back on us as part of the natural working of the universe.

If we assume that music is a form of intentional emotional manipulation, music as we know it was not possible until the onset of intentionality-the ability to reflect about the past and the future.

In computer programming, intentional programming is a collection of concepts which enable software source code to reflect the precise information, called intention, which programmers had in mind when conceiving their work.

Another important element that Husserl took over from Brentano is intentionality, the notion that the main characteristic of consciousness is that it is always intentional.

He was an important part of the Mariners ' 116 – 46 season, with a. 401 on-base percentage, 94 walks, 272 times on base and 19 intentional walks in 159 games.

Shortwave broadcasting played an important part of fighting the cold war with Voice of America and the BBC World Service argumented with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty transmitting through the " Iron Curtain ", and Radio Moscow and others broadcasting back, as well as jamming ( transmitting to cause intentional interference ) the western voices.

The intentional and controlled charring of wood and its incorporation into the soil is an effective method for carbon sequestration as well as an important technique to improve soil conditions for agriculture, particularly in heavily forested regions.

Harman has also argued that perceptual experience has " intentional content " and that it is important not to confuse qualities of the intentional object of experience with qualities of the experience.

Owen drew 70 walks ( 12 intentional ), giving him a respectable. 333 on base percentage -- the walks are an important element for an eight-place hitter in the NL since they bring the pitcher to the plate and allow the offense to start the next inning at the top of the order.

William Doherty, a social scientist has explained in his book “ The Intentional Family ” that as family bonds are weakened by busy lifestyles, families can stay connected only by being intentional about maintaining important rituals and traditions.

Called " assisted migration ", intentional movement of a plant outside of its historical range ( though perhaps consistent with its deep-time range ) became an important issue in the conservation community in 2007 and 2008, with T. taxifolia being the featured plant.

Laughlin hypothesized that parts of the species ' geographical distribution may be the result of intentional placement and later release of these snakes by Romans from the temples of Asclepius, classical god of medicine, where they were important in the medical rituals and worship of the god.

Thus, it is important for customers to understand the difference between a " bug " and a " feature ", where the latter is defined as an intentional modification to the previous system ( e. g., higher speed, lighter weight, smaller package, better operator controls, etc.