From For the Hearts

Encyclopaedias are fascinating. It’s man’s desire to collect in it’s meeting with the immaterial – human knowledge. There are many interesting quirks in the history of the collection and compilation of human knowledge. Encyclopaedias in particular, are utopian projects. From the massive Chinese Yongle encyclopaedia finished in 1408, spanning more than 11’000 handwritten volumes occupying 40 cubic metres, to the Conservapedia website trying to compile a bible-faithful wiki.

I reviewed the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1911. I was looking for ‘holes’ in it’s factual, rationalistic veneer. It has now gone out of copyright, so all the data is available online. What I did was search for, and extract sentences that stated some kind of uncertainty from the encyclopaedia. I found synonyms for Uncertain and extracted those sentences also. I then compiled the sentences in new encyclopaedic entries and re-layouted them in the form of the original, to make a new encyclopaedia of uncertainty.

[edit] Ambiguous–Vague

Ambiguous
Conjecture
Debatable
Doubtful
Tentative
Uncertain
Undetermined
Unknown
Vague