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Representational indeterminacy is a result of the effects of semantic ambiguity and system size. If the differences between the Data Retrieval and Document Retrieval models arise from the same problem then the models are not as distinct as they may have appeared. The Data Retrieval and Document Retrieval models are better seen as examples of information systems with lower and higher levels of representational indeterminacy. 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