p.14 If human realities are intrinsically ambiguous, so is the language that social scientists use in attempting to represent them.

p.17 The toleration of ambiguity can be productive if it is taken not as a warrant for sloppy thinking but as an invitation to deal responsibly with issues of great complexity.

p.43 "We proceed as if we were faced with a choice between the univocal and the ambiguous, and we come to the discovery... that the univocal [JLJ - unambiguous] has its foundations and consequences in ambiguities" (McKeon 1964, 243).

p.218 if ambiguous formulations can provide semantic benefits for biology, the social sciences should claim more abundant gains of this sort since, as noted earlier, social scientists study phenomena that are themselves vehicles of ambiguous experience and utterance.