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The Vagueness of Vagueness in Noun Phrases
, 2021 International audienceNatural language text has a great potential to feed knowledge bases. However, natural language is not always precise-and sometimes intentionally so. In this position paper, we study vagueness in noun phrases. We manually analyze the
Suchanek, Fabian +2 more
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Handling vagueness in ontologies of geographical information [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis presents a novel approach to the problem of handling vagueness in ontologies of geographical information. Ontologies are formal representations of a set of concepts and the relationships that hold between those concepts.
Mallenby, David
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Conceptual room for ontic vagueness [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis is a systematic investigation of whether there might be conceptual room for the idea that the world itself might be vague, independently of how we describe it.
Barnes, Elizabeth
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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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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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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
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What Happens in (the) Vagus, Stays in (the) Vagus
The Heart Surgery Forum, 2020 Many cardiothoracic operations put the nerves of the thorax at risk. In fact, nerve injuries are one of the most common reasons cited in malpractice cases brought against cardiothoracic surgeons. While all physicians learn about the nerves of the thorax during anatomy courses in medical school, little is written about avoiding injury to these important
Shawn, Shah +3 more
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Living on the slippery slope : the nature, sources and logic of vagueness [PDF]
, 2008 According to the dominant approach in the theory of vagueness, the nature of the vagueness of an expression ‘F’ consists in its presenting borderline cases in an appropriately ordered series: objects which are neither definitely F nor definitely not F ...
Zardini, Elia
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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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Vagueness and Quantification [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2015 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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