or apparent, indeterminate, or interpreted contrary to its apparent meaning varies from one person to another. Whoever knows the intended meaning with certainty and allows no other possibility regards it as unequivocal. Whoever finds one meaning apparent but allows for another regards it as apparent. Whoever considers that meaning and another equally possible regards it as indeterminate. Whoever considers the intended meaning to be the less likely possibility regards it as interpreted contrary to its apparent meaning.

These classifications therefore relate to the listeners’ understanding; they do not classify expressions in relation to the speaker’s intent or the listener’s indication. Accordingly, any statement by which its speaker intends a sound meaning, and which conveys that meaning, is clear, even if it is ambiguous to someone who does not understand what it indicates. This classification is not an inherent attribute of speech; rather, some speech must be exclusively clear and some exclusively ambiguous.

The eighth argument: If the ambiguous consists of indeterminate expressions and expressions with multiple meanings, neither of which makes the intended meaning understood or indicates it, then neither would constitute clarification or guidance, nor would either be clarifying, and it could not be known that it was what was intended. And it has