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VAGUENESS IN POLISH AND AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW LANGUAGE AND DEFINITIONS (A STUDY OF POLISH AND US LEGAL SYSTEMS)

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2015
The paper below intends to present and evaluate the theories of vagueness in the language of criminal law as exemplified in legal definitions. In the theory aimed to facilitate the task of interpretation of laws and statutes, in practice legal ...
Katarzyna STRĘBSKA
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Is conceptual vagueness an asset? Resilience research from the perspective of philosophy of science [PDF]

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I analyze the research on social-ecological resilience from the perspective of philosophy of science in three steps. First, I explore to what degree resilience research exhibits conceptual vagueness.
Sebastian Strunz
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An Empirical Comparison of Semantics for Quantified Vague Sentences

open access: yesProblemos
We investigate the compositional semantics of vague quantified sentences, focusing on sentences such as “All of the students are tall,” where a non-vague quantifier quantifies into a vague predicate. While much work has been done on vagueness in natural
Alexandre Cremers, Julija Kalvelyte
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I Giapponesi, parlanti obliqui e vaghi per la salvaguardia di ‘wa’: quanto c’è di vero nel luogo comune?

open access: yesLingue Culture Mediazioni, 2017
Japanese communication style is often described as characterized by indirectness and vagueness. How much truth is there in this cliché? In trying answering this question, I will first review some of the major theoretical ethnographic studies on Japanese ...
Chiara Zamborlin
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A Study on Fuzzy Systems

open access: yes, 2012
We use princiles of fuzzy logic to develop a general model representing several processes in a system's operation characterized by a degree of vagueness and/or uncertainy.
Voskoglou, Michael Gr.
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Effective vague soft environment-based decision-making

open access: yesAIMS Mathematics
The soft idea has a crucial impact on facing uncertainty, but extending soft, fuzzy soft, and vague soft settings is more comprehensive in expressing the problem ambiguity parameters than the soft set.
Hanan H. Sakr , Bader S. Alanazi
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Automatic Detection of Vague Words and Sentences in Privacy Policies

open access: yes, 2018
Website privacy policies represent the single most important source of information for users to gauge how their personal data are collected, used and shared by companies.
Lebanoff, Logan, Liu, Fei
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Arguments Whose Strength Depends on Continuous Variation

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2013
Both the traditional Aristotelian and modern symbolic approaches to logic have seen logic in terms of discrete symbol processing. Yet there are several kinds of argument whose validity depends on some topological notion of continuous variation, which is ...
James Franklin
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