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Originally Posted by TGS
I agree that "some stuff we don't know", is fuzzy, and intentionally so, because I don't know what this other stuff might possibly be. But I'm not sure it's more fuzzy than "complement", if I understand you correctly, wher take it to mean something like "that which completes"". They are both black boxes into that of which we know nothing can be tossed.
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I used the world complement in the mathematical sense (set theory, linear algebra, ...) . Unless specified it is "The difference to the whole". This is not fuzzy at all. It has a unique sense.
Talking of angles one could say the angle and its complement. Implying the complement to the right angle. But this has to be clear the contest.
Discussing of science (I mean hard science in particular) without the ABC of mathematics is tricky.