Amicable Ambiguity: The Indispensable Value of Vagueness, Open-Endedness, and Uncertainty

Donald A. Crosby

doi:10.5771/9781666969665

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-6965-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-6966-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 160
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Note No access
1. Ambiguous Relations of Past, Present, and Future No access
2. Empirical Tests as Theory-Laden No access
3. Existential Commitments No access
4. Ambiguities of Traditions No access
5. Ecological Ambiguities No access
6. Ambiguities of Analogical and Metaphorical Reasoning in Natural Science No access
7. Models and Metaphors No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Note No access
1. Political Ambiguities No access
2. Moral Ambiguities No access
3. Ambiguities of History No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Interpreted Nature No access
2. Orders of Nature No access
3. Natural Ecosystems No access
4. Natural Disasters No access
5. Humans and Nature No access
6. Perspectives and Sizes No access
7. Illusion of a Nonambiguous Nature or Mode of Being No access
8. Conclusion No access
1. Order No access
2. Time No access
3. Materiality No access
4. Diversity No access
5. Secular and Religious Claims to Knowledge No access
6. Locus of the Sacred No access
7. Freedom No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Note No access
1. Global Warming Either Not an Impending Disaster or Not a Preventable One No access
2. Other Problems Require More Immediate Attention No access
3. Satisfactory Technological and Economic Solutions Lie Just Over the Horizon No access
4. Back to the Past No access
5. Need for Primary Attention to a Clear and Present Danger No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Rationalism No access
2. Empiricism No access
3. Role of Time No access
4. Determinism and Indeterminism No access
5. Syntactics and Semantics No access
6. Ambiguity in Ordinary Language No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Nature of Human Freedom No access
2. Inescapability of Freedom No access
3. Freedom from and Freedom for No access
4. Freedom and the Uncertain Future No access
5. Freedom and Personal Character Development No access
6. Freedom in Relation to Others No access
7. Freedom as a Fundamental Value No access
8. Conclusion No access
1. Ambiguous Defense of Ambiguity No access
2. Ambiguities of Religion No access
3. Ambiguities of Science No access
4. Ambiguities of Philosophy No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
References No access Pages 149 - 152
Index No access Pages 153 - 158
About the Author No access Pages 159 - 160