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August 14, 2009
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Uncertainty
the degree to which there are no constraints or limitations on the choices an actor has available or the possible outcomes in a situation;
Also: the quality, state, or condition of not being able to know or predict something accurately;
the situation prevailing when an action resulting from an outcome is not known with certainty, and even the probabilities of various possible outcomes are unknown or cannot be meaningfully estimated.
Uncertain
Unable to be accurately known or predicted;
not clearly determined, established, or decided, or not to be depended upon, unreliable or unstable - likely to change, variable.
†Certain/certainty
Guaranteed to happen, that something, e.g., an event, is considered inevitable;
holding no doubts about something, e.g., an outcome;
having full confidence that something - a proposition - is true.
(see also: risk, judgement, decision-making, attitude, Decision analysis, decision-making under uncertainty)
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