Uncertainty
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When atoms move straight down through the void by their own weight, they deflect a bit in space at a quite uncertain time and in uncertain places, just enough that you could say that their motion has changed. But if they were not in the habit of swerving, they would all fall straight down through the depths of the void, like drops of rain, and no collision would occur, nor would any blow be produced among the atoms. In that case, nature would never have produced anything. --De rerum natura describing clinamen, tr. from Brad Inwood, L. P. Gerson, (1994) |
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Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including physics, philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, sociology, engineering, and information science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements already made, or to the unknown.
See also
- Adventure
- Ambiguity
- Applied Information Economics
- Buckley's chance
- Calibrated probability assessment
- Certainty
- Fuzzy set theory
- Game theory
- Information
- Information entropy
- Information theory
- Inquiry
- Interval finite element
- Measurement uncertainty
- Morphological analysis (problem-solving)
- Probability theory
- Propagation of uncertainty
- Quantum mechanics
- Randomness
- Risk
- Schrödinger's cat
- Statistics
- Statistical mechanics
- Uncertainty principle
- Uncertainty quantification
- Uncertainty tolerance
- Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
