Amicable Ambiguity
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Amicable Ambiguity

The Indispensable Value of Vagueness, Open-Endedness, and Uncertainty

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Amicable Ambiguity

The Indispensable Value of Vagueness, Open-Endedness, and Uncertainty

About this book

Often rejected out of hand as the enemy of clarity and convincingness, ambiguity-in thought, speech, writing, analysis, or theory-should not be overlooked. Donald A. Crosby explores the innumerable positive contributions of conceptual and discursive ambiguity in situations where ambiguity can be the amicable friend of intelligibility and convincingness rather than their sworn enemy. While people have been willing to acknowledge the positive role ambiguity can play in poetry, story, myth, ritual, oratory, and song, Crosby argues that its positive roles extend far beyond these modes of reflection and expression and into the whole of life. Amicable Ambiguity: The Indispensable Value of Vagueness, Open-Endedness, and Uncertainty shows how, why, and when this claim may hold true and needs to incorporated both across academic disciplines as well as in the more ordinary areas of thought and experience.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2024
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978789500
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: The Ballast of Ambiguity
  10. Chapter 2: Politics, Morality, and History
  11. Chapter 3: Ambiguities of Nature
  12. Chapter 4: Religion and Ambiguity
  13. Chapter 5: Ambiguities of Technology
  14. Chapter 6: Ambiguities of Claims to Knowledge
  15. Chapter 7: Ambiguities of Freedom
  16. Chapter 8: Ambiguities of Conviction
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. About the Author

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