科学思维中的模糊刺激思想，图像和隐喻：研究人员与不明确知识的视野合作。

Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, and "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce and B. Russell, scientists have developed tools for working with increasingly accurate knowledge and with vague knowledge and operations. Here I focus mainly on the psychological component: vague ideas, images and metaphors in scientific thinking, and how individuals subjectively experience these, reflect on the