This is an element in Physics as I suppose is very well known.
I wonder if an analogous situation might be said to pertain in the realm of abstract knowledge.
To my mind the uncertainty principle arises in Physics because the observer of an event comes to intrude upon the event by virtue of the fact that any observation requires an influence on the object being observed , causing the observer and the observed to fuse into a conjoined system and preventing the desired measurement taking place.
Now to explain why I am wondering if a similar situation might arise in an abstract or intellectual circumstance.
Suppose you have a choice to make or a judgement to cast about something ..
Well you reflect for a while and you say , with a greater or lesser degree of certainty, *this is what I think about this*
Next ,suppose that we are invited to reflect a little more closely and that we succeed in gathering our thoughts and adding to them , either with new evidence or by better organizing our previous reasoning.
We might find our judgement confirmed or altered nut it is hard to believe that ,if this process was repeated interminably that our mind would not be changed.
A moral dilemma that may have seemed quite clearly delineated would surely become quite tenuous and shifting.
In other words ,in the same way as extreme proximity to a physical object blurs rather than clarifies our view of it then an overrefined examination of an intellectual (or moral) situation also quite befuddles the mind.
So is this true and ,if so, does the analogy with the physical situation hold?
If it does hold ,is this just coincidence or is there an underlying connection between the 2? (the Material amd the Ideal?)