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Epistemicism and modality [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Handling Real-World Context Awareness, Uncertainty and Vagueness in Real-Time Human Activity Tracking and Recognition with a Fuzzy Ontology-Based Hybrid Method

open access: yesSensors, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Locating Vagueness [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Le « flou » philosophique et politique face à l’extrême vieillesse. Quelques réflexions stimulées par le dernier ouvrage de Didier Eribon [PDF]

open access: yesSvět Literatury
In 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
doaj   +1 more source

Fuzzy Property Grammars for Gradience in Natural Language

open access: yesMathematics, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Long‐term hippocampal alterations and cognitive impairment in a murine model of surgical sepsis

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Using a mouse model of surgical sepsis, we tested long‐term memory and analyzed the transcriptome of single cells isolated from the hippocampus. Survivor mice showed worse memory, loss of certain brain cell subpopulations, and abnormal immune cell activity—suggesting that post‐sepsis brain alterations may be linked to cognitive deficits.
Dong Seong Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A New Fuzzy Ontology Development Methodology (FODM) Proposal

open access: yesIEEE 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
doaj   +1 more source

Approximation in morphology: A state of the art

open access: yesZeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023
This paper offers a state of the art of approximation within the larger domain of evaluative morphology. It provides an overview of the formal means employed by the morphology of different languages to express approximative meanings, as well as a survey ...
Francesca Masini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Has Vagueness Really No Function in Law? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
When the United States Supreme Court used the expression “with all deliberate speed” in the case Brown v. Board of Education, it did so presumably because of its vagueness.
Lanius, David
core  

Effects of classification context on categorization in natural categories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The patterns of classification of borderline instances of eight common taxonomic categories were examined under three different instructional conditions to test two predictions: first, that lack of a specified context contributes to vagueness in ...
C. E. Weatherburn   +27 more
core   +1 more source

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