Keynes, "The General Theory of Employment" (journal article, not the
book):
By 'uncertain' knowledge, let me explain, I do not mean merely to
distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. The
game of roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty; nor is
the prospect of a victory bond being drawn.... Even the weather is only
moderately uncertain. The sense in which I am using the term is that in
which the prospect of a European war is uncertain, or the price of
copper and the rate of interest twenty years hence, or the obsolescence
of a new invention, or the position of private wealth-owners in the
social system in 1970. About these matters there is no scientific basis
on which to form any calculable probability whatever. We simply do not
know
^^^^^
CB: Sounds like absolutely uncertain vs relatively uncertain.
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