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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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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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Sensors, 2014 Human activity recognition is a key task in ambient intelligence applications to achieve proper ambient assisted living. There has been remarkable progress in this domain, but some challenges still remain to obtain robust methods.
Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez +4 more
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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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Le « flou » philosophique et politique face à l’extrême vieillesse. Quelques réflexions stimulées par le dernier ouvrage de Didier Eribon [PDF]
Svět LiteraturyIn Vie, vieillesse et mort d’une femme du peuple (2023), Didier Eribon describes his own mother’s entry into a nursing home, where she died several weeks later.
Eva Voldřichová Beránková
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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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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
Nicholas R. Teman +3 more
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A New Fuzzy Ontology Development Methodology (FODM) Proposal
IEEE Access, 2016 There is an upsurge in applying fuzzy ontologies to represent vague information in the knowledge representation field. Current research in the fuzzy ontologies paradigm mainly focuses on developing formalism languages to represent fuzzy ontologies ...
Xin Li +2 more
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