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, 2016 Vagueness is something everyone is familiar with. In fact, most people think that vagueness is closely related to language and exists only there. However, vagueness is a property of the physical world. Quantum computers harness superposition and entanglement to perform their computational tasks.
B Kosko +13 more
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INTRANSITIVITY AND VAGUENESS [PDF]
The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2008 There are many examples in the literature that suggest that indistinguishability is intransitive, despite the fact that the indistinguishability relation is typically taken to be an equivalence relation (and thus transitive). It is shown that if the uncertainty perception and the question of when an agentreportsthat two things are indistinguishable are
Halpern, Joseph Y.
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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
Languages, 2022 This paper investigates the use of kati “some” by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks
Artemis Alexiadou +2 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Many documents contain vague location descriptions of observed objects. To represent location information in geographic information systems (GISs), these vague location descriptions need to be transformed into representable fuzzy spatial regions, and ...
Jun Xu, Xin Pan, Jian Zhao, Haohai Fu
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Dealing with Evaluative Expressions and Hate Speech Metaphors with Fuzzy Property Grammar Systems
Axioms, 2023 We introduce a Fuzzy Property Grammar System (FPGS), a formalism that integrates a Fuzzy Property Grammar into a linguistic grammar system to formally characterize metaphorical evaluative expressions.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +2 more
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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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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2005 In the Sufi Ibn `Arabi’s mystical discourse, a performative “language of unsaying” is generated from the tensions and paradoxes that arise from the attempt to articulate the ineffable nature of a transcendent divine.
David Perley
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Understanding Website Privacy Policies—A Longitudinal Analysis Using Natural Language Processing
Information, 2023 Privacy policies are the main method for informing Internet users of how their data are collected and shared. This study aims to analyze the deficiencies of privacy policies in terms of readability, vague statements, and the use of pacifying phrases ...
Veronika Belcheva +2 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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Vagueness, Logic and Use: Four Experimental Studies on Vagueness [PDF]
, 2011 Although arguments for and against competing theories of vagueness often appeal to claims about the use of vague predicates by ordinary speakers, such claims are rarely tested. An exception is Bonini et al. (1999), who report empirical results on the use
Hargreaves, Ian +2 more
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