A Typology of Imprecision
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چکیده
For about 300 years, scientific language takes its distance in respect to ordinary language, just because the latter is no longer able to face the requirements of rigor and precision of the former. In these conditions, it could look strange to make of imprecision a goal of scientific investigation. The explanation of this paradox is that there is no precise definition of precision, while the difference between mathematics and the other fields is that mathematics is dealing with exact approximations, while in absence of mathematics we cope with . . . approximate exactness. When we relate mathematics to precision, we don’t have in view its object of investigation, but only the nature of its approach. We are looking for a precise approach to a world of imprecision. As a matter of fact, poetry too involves a combination of precision and imprecision, as Baudelaire observed: the psychological states determined by a work of art are imprecise, but the means used to obtain this work are precise.
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Language Review/A New Approach to the Systematic Typology of Languages: Introduction and Review of Fundamentals of Linguistic Typology, Rafe’eh Khoshkhoo
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