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

Ambiguity has an important and often essential role to play in all areas of meaningful thought, expression, and claims to truth. Amicable Ambiguity explores areas of thought and experience where conceptual and discursive ambiguity can be the amicable friend of intelligibility and convincingness rather than their sworn enemy.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Ballast of Ambiguity
Chapter Two: Politics, Morality, and History
Chapter Three: Ambiguities of Nature
Chapter Four: Religion and Ambiguity
Chapter Five: Ambiguities of Technology
Chapter Six: Ambiguities of Claims to Knowledge
Chapter Seven: Ambiguities of Freedom
Chapter Eight: Ambiguities of Conviction
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Donald A. Crosby is professor of philosophy emeritus at Colorado State University.

Product details

• Authors: Donald A Crosby, Donald A. Crosby, Crosby Donald A., Donald A Crosby
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666969658
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-965-8
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge