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  • n  the quality of being vague and poorly defined

  • Like some philosophers of the time, he latched onto the indeterminacy that was inherent in quantum mechanics to resolve "the discrepancy between ethical freedom and strict natural .
  • Heisenberg's outstanding contribution, for which he won the Nobel Prize at 31, was the formulation of the uncertainty, or indeterminacy principle.
  • Like some philosophers of the time, he latched onto the indeterminacy that was inherent in quantum mechanics to resolve "the discrepancy between ethical freedom and strict natural .
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  • How I Live Now
    SAOIRSE RONAN'S particularly scary eyes highlight Kevin Macdonald's interesting yet ultimately flat How I Live Now ; it's an inward-looking but uncanny gaze, the crystal eyes that first startled us when Ronan played the eyewitness in Atonement . She's older now, and the eyes are color-corrected to the point of indeterminacy, a hue ranging from amethyst to the color of a glass of cold water.
    Nov. 20, 2013 - Metro Silicon Valley
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  • Antonin Scalia in CNSNews.com
    What renders a statute vague . . . is not the possibility that it will sometimes be difficult to determine whether the incriminating fact it establishes has been proved; but rather the indeterminacy of what that fact is,Scalia wrote.

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