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Underspecification and Communication
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyIt has recently been argued that our use of vague language poses an intractable problem for any account of content and communication on which (i) the things we assert are propositions and (ii) understanding an assertion requires recognizing which ...
Ray Buchanan
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Arguments Whose Strength Depends on Continuous Variation
Informal Logic, 2013 Both the traditional Aristotelian and modern symbolic approaches to logic have seen logic in terms of discrete symbol processing. Yet there are several kinds of argument whose validity depends on some topological notion of continuous variation, which is ...
James Franklin
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Benefit Corporations: The Moral Legitimacy That Requires More Rules
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines why Italian for‐profit firms convert to Benefit Corporation status and how they navigate the ensuing hybridization. Survey data from 118 companies are interpreted through a pragmatic and moral legitimacy lens. Results show that the main trigger is pragmatic legitimacy: managers seek to strengthen trust with internal and ...
Laura Rocca +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Investors have long recognized the importance of firms in promoting sustainability, leading to the rise of socially responsible investment (SRI). Specifically, there is a growing preference for exchange‐traded funds (ETFs) that prioritize environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles.
Sandra Tenorio‐Salgueiro +3 more
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Crítica, 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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An Empirical Comparison of Semantics for Quantified Vague Sentences
ProblemosWe investigate the compositional semantics of vague quantified sentences, focusing on sentences such as “All of the students are tall,” where a non-vague quantifier quantifies into a vague predicate. While much work has been done on vagueness in natural
Alexandre Cremers, Julija Kalvelyte
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An Interactive Fuzzy Satisficing Method for Fuzzy Random Multiobjective 0-1 Programming Problems through Probability Maximization Using Possibility [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, we focus on multiobjective 0-1 programming problems under the situation where stochastic uncertainty and vagueness exist at the same time.
Hontani, Takehisa +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is pivotal for firms and their stakeholders, highlighting the importance of organizational authenticity (OA) in mitigating information asymmetry between signalers and receivers, thereby enhancing effective communication of social strategies.
Jihun Choi, Young‐Kyu Kim, Taewoo Roh
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The application of firm sustainability practices (FSP) in ethnic minority–owned small and medium–sized enterprises (ESMEs) has received significantly less scholarly focus, making ESME FSP an emerging academic field. This study aims to explore the factors influencing ethnic minority–owned SMEs involved in FSP and identify the factors hindering ...
Nurul Islam +2 more
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Quantum objects are vague objects [PDF]
, 1996 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] Is vagueness a feature of the world or merely of our representations of the world? Of course, one might respond to this question by asserting that insofar as our knowledge of the world is mediated by our representations of it ...
French, S.R.D., Krause, D.
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