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 indeterminateness of the suggestions of an unhumanized scene was then felt as a defect; now we feel it rather as an exaltation.

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

Logicians and detectives and jurymen and suspicious wives and members of the Royal Astronomic Society recognize this indeterminateness, but have the delusion that in the method of agreement there is final, or real evidence.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles