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Expression-Meaning and Vagueness [PDF]
, 2019 Brian Loar attempted to provide the Gricean program of intention-based semantics with an account of expression-meaning. But the theory he presented, like virtually every other foundational semantic or meta-semantical theory, was an idealization that ...
Schiffer, Stephen
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Positioning Localities for Vague Spatial Location Description: A Supervaluation Semantics Approach
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 In the big data era, spatial positioning based on location description is the foundation to the intelligent transformation of location-based-services. To solve the problem of vagueness in location description in different contexts, this paper proposes a ...
Peng Ye +3 more
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Peirce on the Symbolical Foundation of Personhood
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2022 This paper discusses the semiotic and metaphysical framework within which Peirce elaborated a symbolical and dynamical conception of personhood. It exhibits the centrality of Peirce’s early conception of the “unity of consistency” along with its ...
André De Tienne
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Multiple actualities and ontically vague identity [PDF]
, 2008 Gareth Evans's argument against ontically vague identity has been picked over on many occasions. But extant proposals for blocking the argument do not meet well-motivated general constraints on a successful solution.
Williams, J.R.G.
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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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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Epistemicism associates vagueness with ignorance produced by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions in our language resulting from small changes in usage.
Aleksander Domosławski
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Higher-Order Vagueness and the Vagueness of 'Vague'
Mind, 2003 Sorensen has argued that ‘vague’ is itself a vague predicate; it is just as sorites-prone as its positive instances. This result has been exploited by Hyde in an ingenious attempt to establish that vague predicates must necessarily suffer from higher-order vagueness.
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