uncertainty · epistemic
Ask PrometheusWhen a thing may be in one place or another, or may happen at one time or another, and the pattern is not known.
Uncertainty (noun) means: When a thing may be in one place or another, or may happen at one time or another, and the pattern is not known. It emerges from space, time, pattern, randomness: Space and time provide possible locations and moments, pattern.regularity fails to repeat, and randomness.unpredictable breaks expectation, together making outcomes unresolved. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Emergence
through: Space and time provide possible locations and moments, pattern.regularity fails to repeat, and randomness.unpredictable breaks expectation, together making outcomes unresolved.
- unresolved outcome
- potential for surprise
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (8 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | randomness.unpredictable | uncertainty involves unpredictability but is not identical to it |
| contrasts-with | certainty.epistemic | certainty is the resolved counterpart of uncertainty |