indeterminateness

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You will learn to be comfortable with indeterminateness, with vaguely tethered pronouns, with dimly lighted horrors.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2012

"In a cycle"�no beginning and no end�insinuates an indeterminateness in the relationship between the two men: Someone may have started this, but who can tell and what does it matter?

From Time Magazine Archive

Pure being and pure nothing are the same, although we mean different things by them; both are absolute indeterminateness.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

The apparent indeterminateness of the future, upon which some advocates of free will rely, is merely a result of our ignorance.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

But when perceived as invested in a given mass of snow or granite before us, they are divested of that indeterminateness, and become restricted to a determinate measure and degree.

From Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' by Grote, George