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When It Is Vague What Is Vague: Identifying Vagueness

2019
What exactly should count as a vague term? The strikingly diverse examples of what is assumed to be vague in the literature reveal that this is, to a large extent, still unclear. It will be argued that this unclarity is a result of the prevalent borderline definition of vagueness. This definition is certainly pictorial but, in most of its formulations,
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Vague Identity and Vague Objects

Noûs, 1991
In this paper, I want to argue-with certain qualifications-that there cannot be any vague identities, and to outline reasons for scepticism about the view that the world contains vague objects. I also argue that, even if there were vague identities, this would lend no support to the vague-objects view. 1.
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Dialectics of Counting and the Mathematics of Vagueness

Trans. Rough Sets, 2014
New concepts of rough natural number systems are introduced in this research paper from both formal and less formal perspectives. These are used to improve most rough set-theoretical measures in general Rough Set theory (RST) and to represent rough ...
A. Mani
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On typicality and vagueness

Cognition, 1997
Abstract Kamp and Partee (1995) make new and interesting proposals about the linguistic phenomena of typicality and vagueness. The proposals include a mechanism for computing the typicality of objects in complex concepts, and the use of supervaluations to quantify vagueness. These ideas are discussed and evaluated in the present article.
Edward E. Smith, Daniel N. Osherson
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Vagueness and the Law

2012
This chapter combines recent work on vagueness in the philosophy of language with recent work in the philosophy of law on the value of vagueness in certain legal situations. The question at issue is whether leading philosophical theories of what vagueness is can account for the positive utility of certain kinds of legal vagueness.
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Mereological vagueness and existential vagueness

Synthese, 2008
It is often assumed that indeterminacy in mereological relations—in particular, indeterminacy in which collections of objects have fusions—leads immediately to indeterminacy in what objects there are in the world. This assumption is generally taken as a reason for rejecting mereological vagueness.
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VAGUE GROUPS AND Ω-VAGUE GROUPS

New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2005
Given a group G, we show how one can define a vague group structure on G via a chain of subgroups of G. We discuss how a group homomorphism f from a vague group X onto a group Y induces a vague group structure on Y with f satisfying the vague homomorphism property. The notion of Ω-vague groups is introduced, where Ω is a fuzzy subset.
KIRAN R. BHUTANI, JOHN N. MORDESON
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Vagueness and logic

Philosophy of Science, 1939
As is rather generally admitted today, the terms of our language in scientific as well as in everyday use, are not completely precise, but exhibit a more or less high degree of vagueness. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the consequences of this circumstance for a series of questions which belong to the field of logic.
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Adjectival vagueness in a Bayesian model of interpretation

Synthese, 2017
Daniel Lassiter, Noah D. Goodman
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The versatility of the vagus

Physiology & Behavior, 2009
The gut is one of several organs contributing to the peripheral signalling network that controls food intake. Afferent neurons of the vagus nerve provide an important pathway for gut signals that act by triggering ascending pathways from the brain stem to hypothalamus.
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