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Informal Logic, 2009 Paradoxes of vagueness have been on the agenda since classical antiquity. Some theorists have addressed them by curtailing logical principles (bivalence, excluded middle). Others pro-pose to extrude vagueness as an illusion of sorts rooted overlooking an
Nicholas Rescher
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Managing the Vague: John Dewey’s Aesthetics and the Relation of Fine Art and Mathematics
Open Philosophy, 2023 In philosophical discourse, vagueness is commonly regarded as an undesirable and problematic aspect of human experience. Such standpoints are not unfounded.
Ruoppa Raine
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Vague terrain, terrain vague ? [PDF]
Archeopages, 2017 à partir d’un espace « vide », un « terrain vague », reconnu au cœur du vicus gallo-romain de Diodurum (Yvelines), émerge une série de questions quant à sa nature, sa fonction, son statut. C’est aussi, plus généralement, celles de son rapport à la ville, à son espace, à sa structure même, composée de « pleins » mais aussi de « vides », qui sont posées ...
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Metaphysical Vagueness Without Vague Objects [PDF]
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2018 Elizabeth Barnes and Robert Williams have developed a theory of metaphysical indeterminacy, via which they defend the theoretical legitimacy of vague objects. In this paper, we argue that while the Barnes–Williams theory supplies a viable account of genuine metaphysical vagueness, it cannot underwrite an account of genuinely vague objects.
Al Abasnezhad, C.S.I. Jenkins
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Ratio, 2016 AbstractSome comparisons are hard. How should we think about such comparisons? According to John Broome, we should think about them in terms of vagueness. But the vagueness account has remained unpopular thus far. Here I try to bolster it by clarifying the notion of comparative vagueness that lies at its heart.
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Positioning Localities for Vague Spatial Location Description: A Supervaluation Semantics Approach
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 In the big data era, spatial positioning based on location description is the foundation to the intelligent transformation of location-based-services. To solve the problem of vagueness in location description in different contexts, this paper proposes a ...
Peng Ye +3 more
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Peirce on the Symbolical Foundation of Personhood
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2022 This paper discusses the semiotic and metaphysical framework within which Peirce elaborated a symbolical and dynamical conception of personhood. It exhibits the centrality of Peirce’s early conception of the “unity of consistency” along with its ...
André De Tienne
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In recent years philosophers have been interested in the methodology of metaphysics. Most of these developments are related to formal work in logic or physics, often against the backdrop of the Carnap-Quine debate on ontology.
Lieven Decock
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Precision in gestures and words
Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica, 2014 This paper investigates the notion of precision in cognition and communication, it overviews the gestures conveying precision analysed in the literature on multimodality and provides an analysis of the precision gesture of the beak in a corpus of oral ...
Laura Vincze +2 more
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Le flou chez Gérard de Nerval [PDF]
Svět LiteraturyThe art of Gérard de Nerval — visionary poet and vagrant prose writer — is primarily bringing together in his work touching appearances of reality. This romantic writer scrutinises reality, but not to the purpose of clarification and enlisting into ...
Vasile Spiridon
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