Results 241 to 250 of about 27,618 (287)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
An Argument for the Vagueness of ‘Vague’
Analysis, 1985L'A. soutient que l'analyse du vague telle que la revele les paradoxes sorites montre que la notion meme de predicat vague est incoherente et ...
openaire +1 more source
World Journal of Surgery, 2001
World Journal of Surgeryhas been studying the etymologic genealogy of some common terms in surgical usage. Thus the bile duct strangely leads us to symphony orchestras, dukes, coins, and dictators; and a bacteriologic culture is found to be related to such unexpected cousins as religion, agronomy, war, and civilization.
openaire +2 more sources
World Journal of Surgeryhas been studying the etymologic genealogy of some common terms in surgical usage. Thus the bile duct strangely leads us to symphony orchestras, dukes, coins, and dictators; and a bacteriologic culture is found to be related to such unexpected cousins as religion, agronomy, war, and civilization.
openaire +2 more sources
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.
Daniel N Osherson +2 more
exaly +3 more sources
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.
Daniel N Osherson +2 more
exaly +3 more sources
Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague
Synthese, 2007Michael Tye responds to the problem of higher-order vagueness for his trivalent semantics by maintaining that truth-value predicates are “vaguely vague”: it’s indeterminate, on his view, whether they have borderline cases and therefore indeterminate whether every sentence is true, false, or indefinite.
openaire +1 more source
Synthese, 2015
We previously stated an impossibility result and suggested that the standard approaches to vagueness were incapable of providing a satisfactory response to the result. This chapter considers how a more satisfactory response to the result might proceed. This will call for a radical revision in our general understanding of vagueness and in how its logic ...
openaire +1 more source
We previously stated an impossibility result and suggested that the standard approaches to vagueness were incapable of providing a satisfactory response to the result. This chapter considers how a more satisfactory response to the result might proceed. This will call for a radical revision in our general understanding of vagueness and in how its logic ...
openaire +1 more source
2011
Summary: Various elementary properties of vague rings are obtained. Furthermore, the concepts of vague subring, vague ideal, vague prime ideal and vague maximal ideal are introduced, and the validity of some relevant classical results in these settings is investigated.
openaire +2 more sources
Summary: Various elementary properties of vague rings are obtained. Furthermore, the concepts of vague subring, vague ideal, vague prime ideal and vague maximal ideal are introduced, and the validity of some relevant classical results in these settings is investigated.
openaire +2 more sources
Vagueness, Rationality And Undecidability: A Theory Of Why There Is Vagueness
Synthese, 1999A theory is put forward which explains vagueness of natural language predicates as a result of the fact that we are computationally bound. It is argued that for a Church-bound agent avoiding vagueness involves greater costs than accepting it. The relationship between vagueness and undecidability is explored.
openaire +2 more sources
VAGUE PARTS AND VAGUE IDENTITY
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009AbstractWe discuss arguments against the thesis that the world itself can be vague. The first section of the paper distinguishes dialectically effective from ineffective arguments against metaphysical vagueness. The second section constructs an argument against metaphysical vagueness that promises to be of the dialectically effective sort: an argument ...
ELIZABETH BARNES, J. R. G. WILLIAMS
openaire +1 more source
When It Is Vague What Is Vague: Identifying Vagueness
2019What 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,
openaire +1 more source
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1993
Summary: A vague set is a set of objects, each of which has a grade of membership whose value is a continuous subinterval of \([0,1]\). Such a set is characterized by a truth-membership function and a false-membership function. The notions of inclusion, union, intersection, and complement are extended to such sets, and various properties of vague sets ...
Wen-Lung Gau, Daniel J. Buehrer
openaire +2 more sources
Summary: A vague set is a set of objects, each of which has a grade of membership whose value is a continuous subinterval of \([0,1]\). Such a set is characterized by a truth-membership function and a false-membership function. The notions of inclusion, union, intersection, and complement are extended to such sets, and various properties of vague sets ...
Wen-Lung Gau, Daniel J. Buehrer
openaire +2 more sources