Quotes About Ambiguity

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!

I don't know what to do with my future.

We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.

How far does life take us? I don't see anything at the end.

No, I thought, there's no way to tell in advance what's behind the cloud that hides the future, but maybe -- just maybe--I can make a difference.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed,And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;On both his wings, one black, the other white,Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

The palpable obscure.

Everything either this or that and oversimplified. But life was much more complicated. Life was much more than this or that, black or white. Life was grayish. "And

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

there is a radical underdetermination of what is said by the literal meaning of the sentence. There is nothing in the literal meaning of the sentence "She gave him her key and he opened the door" to block the interpretation, He opened the door with her key by bashing the door down with the key; the key weighed two hundred pounds and was in the shape of an axe. Or, He swallowed both the door and the key and he inserted the key in the lock by the peristaltic contraction of his gut.

In a normal literal utterance of each of these sentences, each verb has a constant meaning. There is no lexical ambiguity or metaphorical usage involved. But in each case the same verb will determine different truth conditions or conditions of satisfaction generally, because what counts as cutting or growing will vary with the context. If

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

And one of the commonest forms of fallacious reasoning arising from ambiguity, is that of arguing from a metaphorical expression as if it were literal; that is, as if a word, when applied metaphorically, were the same name as when taken in its original sense: which will be seen more particularly in its place.

This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of the copula in affirmations, but has also a meaning of its own, in virtue of which it may itself be made the predicate of a proposition.

Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.

William Nelson Cromwell. Whether Beers went to the United

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

If everything isn't black and white I say why the hell not.