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

In literature, however, where the sensuous value of the words is comparatively small, indeterminateness of form is fatal to beauty, and, if extreme, even to expressiveness.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

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

Consciousness—in regard to external perception—is explained by this indeterminateness and this choice.

From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander