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What's more likely: a precise description of an ambiguous world, or an ambiguous description of a precise world?
This is the modernist fallacy: to think that conceptual blurriness correctly describes a blurry world.
To me, this is silly and irrational. Ambiguous theories are flawed; they aren't positive arguments for "true ambiguity".
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