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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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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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, 2017 The claim that all vagueness must be a feature of language or thought is the current orthodoxy. This is a claim about the “location” of vagueness. “Locating Vagueness” argues that this claim is false, largely by defending the possibility of borderline ...
Merricks, Trenton
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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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The Oxford Handbook of Lying, 2018 Vagueness is a double-edged sword in relation to lying and truthfulness. In situations in which a cooperative speaker is uncertain about the world, vagueness offers a resource for truthfulness: it avoids one’s having to commit oneself to more precise ...
P. Égré, B. Icard
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Typicality, graded membership, and vagueness [PDF]
, 2007 This paper addresses theoretical problems arising from the vagueness of language terms, and intuitions of the vagueness of the concepts to which they refer.
Hampton, J. A.
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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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Fuzzy Property Grammars for Gradience in Natural Language
Mathematics, 2023 This paper introduces a new grammatical framework, Fuzzy Property Grammars (FPGr). This is a model based on Property Grammars and Fuzzy Natural Logic.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +2 more
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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2020 At the same time as, in Paris, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl experimented with the concept of “participation,” in Harvard, William James undertook a parallel trajectory by taking recourse to the notion of “the vague.” For him, vagueness described the fact that reality is richer than any and all conceptualizations.
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Epistemicism and modality [PDF]
, 2016 What kind of semantics should someone who accepts the epistemicist theory of vagueness defended in Timothy Williamson’s Vagueness (1994) give a definiteness operator?
Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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