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The Evolution of Vagueness
... of vagueness presented here which, in some ways, goes deeper than the ...of vagueness. Vagueness, then, could be explained as a side effect of an efficient learning ...of vagueness that bears ...
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Modelling linguistic vagueness and uncertainty in historical texts
... Many applications in Digital Humanities (DH) rely on annotations of the raw mate- rial. These annotations (inferred automati- cally or done manually) assume that la- belled facts are either true or false, thus all ...
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Vagueness, truth, and nothing else
... of vagueness: Field’s account—explicitly intended to be cotenable with deflationism about truth—and the incompatibilism of Raffman, which was not motivated by any concern for deflationism, but might be thought ...
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A Quantum Probability Perspective on Borderline Vagueness
... The term ‘vagueness’ describes a property of natural concepts, which normally have fuzzy boundaries, admit borderline cases and are susceptible to Zeno’s sorites paradox (as long as there is a semi-continuous ...
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Exploring Temporal Vagueness with Mechanical Turk
... In the current scheme, all time expressions have a VALUE attribute and the TimeML specifies how to standardize it (Pustejovsky et al., 2003). However, a subgroup of time expressions are noticeably ignored by the ...
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MoL 2002 01: Stand Over There, Please: The Dynamics of Vagueness, the Origins of Vagueness, and How Pie Cutting Relates to Ancient Heaps of Sand
... Hopefully, the concept of a “vague selection” has by now been made fully clear. The thread which this whole chapter – perhaps this whole thesis – hangs from begins in the observation that one often must make a vague ...
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MoL 2019 07: Intensional Kleene logics for vagueness
... tological basis of the universe of discourse, but appears only at the higher level of intensions. Having moved E-vagueness to a non-fundamental but derived level not only provides a formal explanation but lowers ...
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Exploring the Communicative Functions of Pragmatic Vagueness as a Discursive Strategy
... pragmatic vagueness, which is different from the vagueness of ...pragmatic vagueness for achieving commu- nicative ...pragmatic vagueness has, how its functions are achieved and why people ...
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The Vagueness of Partial Birth Abortion Bans: Deconstruction or Destruction
... 1999] THE VAGUENESS OFPARTIAL-BIRTHABORTION BANS 1259 overbreadth of the statute, because the abortion provider in that case testified that he intended to extract the intact fetus' leg f[r] ...
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Vagueness, contextualism, and ellipsis
... sorites is still a problem even if one eradicates vagueness by fixing contextual factors in a way that contextualists might be expected to approve of. By means of the qualification relative to the current ...
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Supernumeration: Vagueness and Numbers
... Here the idea is that vague statements are treated by considering a range of admissible precisifications, each of which makes the statements involved classically precise, i.e. true or false. A statement’s truth-status is ...
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Vagueness: A Variant Approach
... The problem of vagueness has a long history. Among the ancient Greeks, Eubulides of Megara (b. ca. 400 BC) was the most prominent and influential member of the Megarian school of dialecticians as whose head he ...
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Living on the slippery slope : the nature, sources and logic of vagueness
... of vagueness, offering the basics of a logical framework in which the theory can be ...of vagueness from inconsistency, since, as we have seen, the sorites paradox need only use the rule of modus ponens for ...
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Frege on Vagueness and Ordinary Language
... Another text that counts against reading Frege as an epistemicist comes from his discussion of the concept of motion in On the Law of Inertia, the same discussion that provides us with the best evidence for that sort of ...
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Higher Order Vagueness
... Order Vagueness an object of scientific attention, we conclude that vagueness is undesirable in logical systems but desirable in language, and the Semiotics Universe splits into three other universes inside ...
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Typicality, graded membership, and vagueness
... Hampton: Vagueness. Page 15 quantified “All x are A and not A” is not of course equivalent to the particular “Some x are A and some x are not A”, but given that the first logical interpretation is clearly false, ...
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Being coherently vague : the logic and metaphysics of vagueness
... Vagueness on this account presents no challenge to orthodox semantics or logic; the sorites paradox has a solution which leaves classical logic intact The widespread view that vagueness [r] ...
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MoL 2013 11: The Bivalent Trap: Vagueness, Theories of Meaning and Identity
... A model of vague signaling In the previous chapter we argued in favor of understanding meaning as an emergent property of a complex system, rather than in terms of determinate correspond[r] ...
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Modelling higher-order vagueness: columns, borderlines and boundaries
... 13 It might be tempting to respond that as there are no clear borderline cases according to CHOV, it is wrong to see the intermediate, non-clear, cases as first-order borderline case[r] ...
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The interception of vagueness in occurrence of plants modeling with using map algebra
... Od té doby byly některé GIT SW (ESRI Spatial Analyst, Grass) rozšířeny o pro- storové analýzy nad rastrovými daty s využitím ma- pové algebry. Mapová algebra se používá například při v[r] ...
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