ambiguity

The election “is this massive force that is causing uncertainty, that is presenting ambiguity — and that is something that is inherently stressful to the nervous system,” Simon-Thomas said.

Israel is assumed to have nuclear weapons but maintains an official policy of ambiguity.

Larry Alan Burns, a former Bush-appointed judge who served for 20 years in California before retiring in May, said far from clarifying Bruen, Rahimi reinforced the ambiguity by embracing loose analogies over strict historical matches.

For Foreman, the politics of the play comes down to the fundamental question of “managing noise,” which is to say ambiguity, in psychic life.

"Liminal spaces are transitional or transformative spaces that are neither here nor there; they are the in-between places or thresholds we pass through from one area to another," the article explains, citing University of Missouri professor Dr. Timothy Carson who uses the pandemic as an example of how a person can dip into them, referring to it as an "involuntary social liminality, a time/space that was full of uncertainty and ambiguity, all the landmarks gone, the future undefined."