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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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