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Organon FEpistemicism about vagueness is the position that bivalence holds for every instance of a vague predicate, even if truth or falsity is unknowable in borderline cases.
Jeffrey J. Watson
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4.3. Vaghezza ontologica senza scetticismo
Rivista di Estetica, 2012 Ontic vagueness is defended by appealing to a realist and objectivist perspective. First, ontic vagueness is distinguished from epistemic vagueness and semantic vagueness.
Elisa Paganini
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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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Category membership and category potential: The case of vague because
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2023 I analyse the English causal connector because as used in the so-called because X constructions in terms of its word class membership. I show that three types of because can be distinguished based on syntactic criteria. Depending on the complement of the
Martin Konvička
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Análisis Filosófico, 2021 Uncut is a book about two kinds of paradoxes: paradoxes involving truth and its relatives, like the liar paradox, and paradoxes involving vagueness.
David Ripley
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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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MEASUREMENT OF VAGUE PREDICATES
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2013 Purpose. The way of assignment of exact numerical truth value to any vague predicate sentence remains to be problematic. Methodology. I would like to propose one of the possible ways of estimation for vague sentences: to exploit the supevaluationists'
Ludmila A. Katz
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