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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"vagueness"”.
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Vagueness in mathematics talk
… Nonetheless, as this thesis demonstrates, vagueness is commonplace when people talk about mathematics. In this thesis, I examine the circumstances in which vagueness arises in mathematics talk, and consider the practical purposes which speakers achieve by means of vague utterances in this …
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Probabilistic semantics for vagueness
… a fundamentally probabilistic semantics for vagueness on which the meaning of a vague predicate is a likelihood function on the states it encodes, with these likelihoods being generated via reinforcement learning in a signaling game.
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The phenomena of vagueness
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
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Handling vagueness in ontologies of geographical information
… a novel approach to the problem of handling vagueness in ontologies of geographical information. Ontologies are formal representations of a set of concepts and the relationships that hold between those concepts. They have been proposed as a method of representing geographical information …
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"Supervaluationism, Penumbral Connections, and the Nature of Higher-Order Vagueness"
… Kit Fine's account of the logic and semantics of vagueness. The overall aim of Fine's project is to develop an account of the logic and semantics of vague language which accommodates distinctive characteristics of vagueness including penumbral connections and higher-order vagueness. I begin …
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Borderline duties and fuzzy values: An analysis of vagueness in ethics
… normative ethics is fundamentally a problem of vagueness in the specific sense in which the issue is treated within the philosophy of logic and language. This realisation leads to a substantial reframing of the question with two main takeaways: the first is an undermining of the plausibility of …
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Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman
… to achieve academically is the contract of vagueness, the tacit agreement between federal education policy and English language learning (ELL) students to misunderstand one another. Differing cultural conceptions of education perpetuate this mutually detrimental relationship between …
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‘“Tantalizing Vagueness”: Intimacy and Distance in Edward Thomas’s Poetry’ with a practice-by-research poetry collection, ‘The Things I Could Not Say’.
Abstract Edward Thomas’s poems employ deliberate stylistic techniques to make them tantalisingly vague and enticing and puzzling for readers. A holistic exploration of these aspects gives insight into how poets can create compelling and satisfying poems. However, writing is, to some extent, an …
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Strict finitism as a foundation for mathematics
… one, which focuses on the problematic notion of vagueness to which the strict finites seems committed, I suggest, calls for some revision or further development of the strict finitist’s position. The third part of this thesis is therefore concerned with such development, and I discuss various …
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Formulation of weighted disclosure indices and its application in evaluating accounting disclosure and financial performance of listed firms
… to evaluate the level of clarity or vagueness in financial statements disclosure and listed firms` compliance level to International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). These newly-formulated methods were then applied to investigate the …
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An expert system based advisor for the quality function deployment method
… design is characterized by imprecision and vagueness. Designers make significant commitments to system-level design requirements and the system design concept in the face of this vagueness. Accordingly, the primary goal of this research is to develop an aid to facilitate the definition of …
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A Rhetoric of mysticism
… ambiguous. The current dissertation argues that vagueness is not an accidental nor an unfortunate feature of mystical communications. Because of difficulties in direct expression, mystical communicators rely on the active and imaginative participation of the listener/reader to complete the …
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Uncertainty in marine structural strength with application to compressive failure of longitudinally stiffened panels
… prediction is the result of ambiguity and vagueness in the system. This study addresses the ambiguity component of uncertainty; this includes uncertainty due to randomness in the basic strength parameters (random uncertainty) and systematic errors and scatter in the prediction of strength …
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Saudi poetry in the last quarter of the 20th century : a creative analysis
… Saudi women and the inevitable conflict, and vagueness and the adventure of distinction. Chapter One sets out the historical and cultural background of Saudi Arabia during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It focuses on the 20th century by classifying modern Saudi history into five stages, in …
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Desiree - a Refinement Calculus for Requirements Engineering
… informality, incompleteness, ambiguity, vagueness, inconsistencies, and more. It is the task of requirements engineering (RE) processes to derive from these an eligible (formal, complete enough, unambiguous, consistent, measurable, satisfiable, modifiable and traceable) requirements …
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Fuzzy logic and utility theory for multiobjective optimization of automotive joints
… they need a design methodology that accounts for vagueness. Fuzzy sets and utility theory are appropriate tools because they link the vagueness in a problem formulation and the precise nature of mathematical models. Fuzzy multiobjective optimizations are performed on an automotive joint to …
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God and Gratuitous Evil
… van Inwagen and Hasker both implicitly appeal to vagueness and that vagueness is irrelevant to the No Gratuitous Evil Thesis. My defense in Part Two provides an explanation for why we should expect non-gratuitous evils to appear gratuitous, which is the subject of Part Three. I offer an account of …
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