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Knowledge Engineering from Data Perspective: Granular Computing Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The concept of rough set theory is a mathematical approach to uncertainly and vagueness in data analysis, introduced by Zdzislaw Pawlak in 1980s. Rough set theory assumes the underlying structure of knowledge is a partition.
Barot, Rushin
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The Quietist’s Gambit

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
In this paper I develop a semantic theory of vagueness that is immune to worries regarding the use of precise mathematical tools. I call this view semantic quietism. This view has the advantage of being clearly compatible with the phenomenon of vagueness.
Ricardo Mena
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Soames on Vagueness

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002
Soames's account is based on the old idea that borderline cases involve truthvalue gaps. He says rather little in justification of this idea, merely that it seems arbitrary where to locate the cut-off point for a vague term and that it is unclear what semantic mechanism could determine that point. The book shows no awareness of work on the epistemicist
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Fuzzy sets: motivations and first concepts

open access: yesScience & Philosophy, 2015
Starting from the Russel’s studies on the limits of the empiricism, some considerations about the concept of vagueness, are recalled in order to stress the motivations and the development of a foundational context for the fuzzy sets.
Aldo G. S. Ventre
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How vague can one be? Rational preferences without completeness or transitivity [PDF]

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What can it mean for preferences to be rational when transitivity or completenss are not assumed? In this paper we provide a framework and a set of conditions to deal with this question.
Marco Mariotti, Paola Manzini
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