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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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Topological Models of Columnar Vagueness [PDF]
, 2022 This paper intends to further the understanding of the formal properties of (higher-order) vagueness by connecting theories of (higher-order) vagueness with more recent work in topology.
Mormann, Thomas
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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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Theories of vagueness and theories of law [PDF]
, 2019 It is common to think that what theory of linguistic vagueness is correct has implications for debates in philosophy of law. I disagree. I argue that the implications of particular theories of vagueness on substantive issues of legal theory and practice ...
Silk, Alex
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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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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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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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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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