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Research in the digital humanities often involves vague information, either because our objects of study lack clearly defined boundaries, or because our knowledge about them is incomplete or hypothetical, which is especially true in disciplines about our
Patricia Martin-Rodilla +1 more
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Moral Vagueness as Semantic Vagueness
Does moral vagueness require ontic vagueness? A central challenge for nonontic treatments of moral vagueness arises from the referential stability of moral terms across small changes in how they ar...
Rohan Sud
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Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of 'Vague'
Sorensen has argued that ‘vague’ is itself a vague predicate; it is just as sorites-prone as its positive instances. This result has been exploited by Hyde in an ingenious attempt to establish that vague predicates must necessarily suffer from higher-order vagueness.
Achille C. Varzi
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Moral Vagueness Is Ontic Vagueness
The aim of this essay is to argue that, if a robust form of moral realism is true, then moral vagueness is ontic vagueness. The argument is by elimination: I show that neither semantic nor epistemic approaches to moral vagueness are satisfactory.
Miriam Schoenfield
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Nestas considerações acerca da Nouvelle Vague, o autor mostra que este fenômeno cinematográfico surgiu meio ao acaso, entre 1959/1960, no bojo de uma reação mais ampla ao tradicional cinema francês. Particularmente vinculado à escola crítica dos Cahiers du Cinéma, o movimento consolidou-se nos anos 60, tendo desencadeado uma prática cinematográfica ...
Michel Marié
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Fundamental Nomic Vagueness [PDF]
If there are fundamental laws of nature, can they fail to be exact? In this paper, I consider the possibility that some fundamental laws are vague. I call this phenomenon fundamental nomic vagueness.
Eddy Keming Chen
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Communication-Enhancing Vagueness
I experimentally investigate how vague language changes the nature of communication in a biased strategic information transmission game. Counterintuitively, when both precise and imprecise messages can be sent, in aggregate, senders are more accurate ...
Daniel H. Wood
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Questo lavoro presenta un modello pragmatico-cognitivo di analisi del fenomeno della vaghezza linguistica in quanto strategia implicitante persuasiva e potenzialmente manipolatoria.
Giorgia Mannaioli
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It is undeniable that information flow is crucial for the dissemination of information and knowledge. However, information flows in a vague environment; that is, an environment full of noise.
Apostolos Syropoulos
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Really Vague? Automatically Identify the Potential False Vagueness within the Context of Documents
Privacy policies are critical for helping individuals make decisions on the usage of information systems. However, as a common language phenomenon, ambiguity occurs pervasively in privacy policies and largely impedes their usefulness.
Xiaoli Lian +5 more
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