Beauvoir alone fused ambiguity with bad faith as a single conceptual pair.

Evidence

One way to get at the unique way Beauvoir triangulates the thought of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty is to examine the way she redeploys the concept of ambiguity. In Merleau-Ponty there is no idea of bad faith to complicate the dynamics of ambiguity. In Sartre, the dynamics of ambiguity as described in the look, for example, are isolated from the machinations of bad faith. With Beauvoir, ambiguity and bad faith travel together. Th ey are intimate companions. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 67

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fixes the precise technical relationship between ambiguity (Merleau-Ponty, anonymous) and bad faith (Sartre, willed) and how Beauvoir’s synthesis differs from each.