All good comments and I don't disagree completely. Most humans get around just find reading books and communicating.
Interestingly though, there are miscommunications between humans and not just because someone said "the man saw a boy with his telescope" without sufficient context.
The intractable problem is that human language has evolved to require context or presumption of intent and these are not stated or confirmed. Therefore probabilities MUST be assigned to them. There is no exactness because the context and intent are not stated/communicated/written, they are by definition assumed.
This assumed knowledge works in many cases but fails in others. The difficulty comes when the audience does not AGREE with the assumption.
TLDR: Humans communicate by assuming that their audiences share some of their beliefs but sometimes the unspoken beliefs of the audience don't match the speakers'.
Interestingly though, there are miscommunications between humans and not just because someone said "the man saw a boy with his telescope" without sufficient context.
The intractable problem is that human language has evolved to require context or presumption of intent and these are not stated or confirmed. Therefore probabilities MUST be assigned to them. There is no exactness because the context and intent are not stated/communicated/written, they are by definition assumed.
This assumed knowledge works in many cases but fails in others. The difficulty comes when the audience does not AGREE with the assumption.
TLDR: Humans communicate by assuming that their audiences share some of their beliefs but sometimes the unspoken beliefs of the audience don't match the speakers'.