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Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of 'Vague'
Mind, 2003 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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Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual, 2003 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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Communication-Enhancing Vagueness
Games, 2022 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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Italiano LinguaDue, 2023 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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Proceedings, 2022 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
Mathematics, 2023 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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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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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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