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

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

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

From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander

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