o estado incerto, indefinido, arbitrário em que se nada

"Like legal utterances, all interpretations in the field of literary criticism and in the social sciences may be challenged, and the question 'Who can defeat a claim' is common to all argumentative situations. Only in the tribunal is there a moment when the procedures of appeal  are exhausted. But it is because the decision of the judge is implemented by the force of public power. Neither in literary criticism, nor in the social sciences, is there such a last word. Or, if there is any, we call that violence." (Paul Ricoeur, in Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences)