Not only do his contemporaries provide ambiguous and conflicting reports, but the basic facts are wanting.

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Public opinion is ambiguous: voters tell pollsters they dislike bail-outs, but do not want to see the euro destroyed.

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Mr Simpson himself, who was found not guilty of murder but liable for two deaths in a later civil trial, has often been a more ambiguous figure.

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As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.

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