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What does multivalence mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being multivalent.
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Why would the curator, who was surely aware of the fraught multivalence of this view, choose to give it such prominence?
But Ɓukasiewicz's championing of multivalence in the analysis of modality has been almost universally rejected, and the logic of modality has inexorably followed other paths, mostly bivalent, non-extensional ones.
An ambiguity is not a confusion of meaning, requiring clarification so that it may be resolved, but an enriching uncertainty, whose multivalence invites elaboration rather than resolution.
The extraordinary symbolic multivalence of food and eating extends much further, so that food has probably always been charged with questions of moral significance.
The complexity and multivalence of the receiving tradition prevent the information from being somehow, simply, walled off or cabined.
In terms of truth, the mismatch problem recounts the antagonism between bivalence and multivalence, between the black-or-white and the gray.

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