They mingled the tropes of detective fiction with a kind of European quasi-philosophical ambiguity.
Even if that does not happen with CBS's proposed mini-series, the subject of Hitler is filled with more ambiguity and philosophical quandary than almost any other historical topic.
There are a few main philosophical issues involved in ambiguity.
In other words, philosophers have often found ambiguity the sort of thing one needs to avoid and eradicate when they do their serious philosophical business.
Confusion marred these discussions because of ambiguities in the philosophical and theological terminology, such that, for example, the thesis — ascribed to Sabellius — would be advanced that in God there was one ύπόστασις and three πρόσωπα, where ύπόστασις conveyed the meaning of "person" and πρόσωπα bore the sense of "roles" or "modes" of being.
Among this book's merits is its perceptive treatment of the collision between the sheer purity of absolute ideas, whether religious or philosophical, and the stubborn impurity, complexity, ambiguity of actual human lives.
Making such dissent explicit tends to expose inherent ambiguities (which may be philosophical or practical) and acknowledges that not everything can be resolved; such findings may be more use to reviewers than a firm statement which implies that all tensions have been "fixed".
Making such dissent explicit tends to expose inherent ambiguities (which may be philosophical or practical) and acknowledges that not everything can be resolved; such findings may be more use to those who use realist evaluation than a firm statement that implies that all tensions have been fixed.
Any attempt to put the unspeakable on paper will necessarily fall short, but Hustvedt's sustained argument in the book is precisely that all categories -- medical and philosophical -- are in themselves subject to ambiguity.
