Uncertainty
Uncertainty is an inevitable part of the assertion of knowledge, see Bayesian probabilityMathematicians handle uncertainty using probability theory, Dempster-Shafer theory, fuzzy logic. See also probability.
Examples where uncertainty is important:
- Uncertainty is designed into games, most notable, gambling where chance is central to play.
- In physics in certain situations, uncertainty has been elevated into a prinicple, the uncertainty principle.
- In weather forcasting it is now commonplace to include data on the degree of uncertainty in a weather forecast[?].
- Uncertainty is often an important factor in economics.
Further Reading
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FELSMAN. Love me!
SEELCHEN. Thou art rude!
FELSMAN. Love me!
SEELCHEN. Thou art grim!
FELSMAN. Aye. I have no silver tongue. Listen! This is my voice.
to the first star all is fast. [Laying his hand on her heart] And
the wild beasts crouching. In them I see the distance. Are they
flowers. [She breaks away from him to the rock where THE GOATHERD is
THE GOATHERD neither stirs nor answers] He is lost in the blue.
here.
FELSMAN. [With fierce longing] Am I then no one?
SEELCHEN. Thou?
[The scene darkens with evening]
See! Sleep has stolen the day! It is night already.
There come the female shadow forms of SLEEP, in grey cobweb
swaying form. They vanish, encircled by the forms of SLEEP. It
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My yellow-eyed, sweet-smelling.
And stars beyond all telling
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And let me find sweet water!
Come near thee, little daughter!
Thy tender feet from slipping!
Great Master, Goat-God--skipping!"
There passes in the thin moonlight the Goat-Good Pan; and with a
fades, and all is black; till, in the faint grisly light of the
the sleeping FELSMAN. THE GOATHERD BOY has gone; but by the
she sees the Shepherd of THE COW HORN standing there] I know thee
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