The Emperor and The Moon

Certainty drawn with ambiguity, and the tradition reads the pair as the Emperor's characteristic failure: declaring a situation resolved because an unresolved one is intolerable. The Moon does not become clearer by being ruled on.

Associated with demanding a definite answer from something genuinely undecided, and with the damage a premature verdict does.

Read for a decision made to end the discomfort of not deciding. The pair distinguishes that from a decision made on the merits.

Not knowing is a position you can hold. Declaring is not the same as resolving and it forecloses the actual answer.