indeterminacy

is, according to critical theorists, the normal condition of communication.

Contra Davidson, critical theorist have argued that indeterminacy/undecidabilityis the normal condition of communication and is productively exploited in domestic and international negotiations such as in the standoff in early 2001 between the United States and China over responsibility for the downing of an American spy plane. Maximizing agreement in this case and others depends on the nonsynonymous nature of lexemes and sentence-level texts and the uncharitable, performative nature of the dissemination and excess of those texts (Bataille 1985, Denida 1972). (povinelli 2005 : 322)

is simply the problem of sign closure: The possibility of endless replication is not an accident that befalls the sign but a constitutive element of its structure, an incompletion without which the sign would be incomplete.

the impossibility of checking this activity of the already meaningful sign. It is simply the problem of sign closure: the possibility of endless replication is not an accident that befalls the sign but a constitutive element of its structure, an incompletion without which the sign would be incomplete. (1982:188-89)

is the ability of a musical piece to be performed in substantially different ways.

Cage defined it as: 'the ability of a piece to be performed in substantially different ways'

indeterminacy, n.Definitions

indeterminacy