“Number 54, the house with the bamboo door” is how an old song begins. Using a simple rhyme, these words make the obvious point that numbers carry information that can be verified. If the song did refer to a real house, one could visit it to find out if its number was 54 and if it actually had a bamboo door. If it did not, then the information was incorrect.
On the other hand, if there were houses with numbers such as 54A, 54B, 54C, etc., and only one of them had a bamboo door, then the information would have been incomplete and ambiguous. Finally, if the house, its number, and the bamboo door all existed only in the songwriter’s imagination, then the information would have been misleading.
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