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Uncertainty - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Uncertainty : \Un*cer"tain*ty\, n.; pl. Uncertainties.
1. The quality or state of being uncertain.
2. That which is uncertain; something unknown.
Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a
moral certainty for an uncertainty. --L'Estrange.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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UNCERTAINTY. That which is unknown or vague. Vide Certainty.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Uncertainty : Uncertainty: You may be uncertain why "uncertainty" deserves a place in a medical dictionary but some would say that uncertainty is a key element in medicine.
"The core predicament of medicine -- the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult and being a part of a society that pays the bills they run up so vexing -- is
uncertainty," observed the surgeon Atul Gawande. "Medicine's ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom -- for both patients and doctors -- is defined by how one copes with it."
Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. By Atul Gawande. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2002.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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