Abstract Referentially vague (or ‘ignorance’) indefinites are known to exhibit apparently conflicting behavior: in the singular, they referentially (Giannakidou and Quer 2013, Alonso-Ovalle Menéndez-Benito 2010, 2011, 2013), but plural appear depend on a discourse given set. The phenomenon is typically discussed context of Spanish algún/algunos (Gutiérrez-Rexach 2001, Martí 2008, 2009); this pa...

Vagueness is one of the most persistent and challenging topics in the intersection of philosophy and logic. At least five other noteworthy books on vagueness have been written by philosophers since 1991 [2, 6, 11, 12, 15]. A (necessarily incomplete) bibliography that has been compiled for the Arché project Vagueness: its Nature and Logic (2004-2006) of the University of St Andrews lists more th...

Let a sentence be second-level indeterminate just in case it has different truth-values under different acceptable assignments of semantic values, and let a sentence be first-level indeterminate just in case there are acceptable assignments under which the sentence lacks a classical, determinate truth-value. Many theorists of vagueness take for granted that the indeterminacy with which vaguenes...

In this paper we propose an approach to vagueness characterised by two features. The first one is philosophical: we move along a Kantian path emphasizing the knowing subject’s conceptual apparatus. The second one is formal: to face vagueness, and our philosophical view on it, we propose to use topology and formal topology. We show that the Kantian and the topological features joined together al...

Some manipulations with vague quantities consist in an aggregation of vague amounts where the resulting aggregated quantity (in our case a sum of vague summands) is expected to be (almost) crisp. The aim of this contribution is to analyze and briefly discuss various approaches to this problem which can be supported by the elementary theory of fuzzy quantities. The analysis is focused on the pos...

The naive approach to vagueness maintains that the nature of the vagueness of an expression basically consists in its not having boundaries between positive and negative cases of application in an appropriate ordering (a “soritical series”), whilst having both positive and negative cases in it. The naive approach is contrasted with the nowadays dominant approach to vagueness, maintaining that t...

This paper deals with inference using multiple patterns. Inference among vague information, e.g. patterns, has caused \explosion of vagueness". This paper proposes a new mechanism to suppress the increase of vagueness. This paper also proposes a modi cation method for pattern space based on a new concept of vagueness in patterns. Simulations are done to demonstrate the potentiality of the propo...

â â â  â  abstract â â â  this study addressed the semantic vagueness in aljubby's book (sharih ghareeb alfath almudawana) in almaliki terms. it consists of introduction, preface, three sections, and conclusion. the preface stated the semantic obscurity in language and terminology with the definition of the book (almudawana) in maliki fiqh. the first section studied aljubby's method a...

This paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of “technology in use.” The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and f...

In this paper we study topology of the variety of closed pla-nar n-gons with given side lengths l1,. .. , ln. The moduli space M ℓ where ℓ = (l1,. .. , ln), encodes the shapes of all such n-gons. We describe the Betti numbers of the moduli spaces M ℓ as functions of the length vector ℓ = (l1,. .. , ln). We also find sharp upper bounds on the sum of Betti numbers of M ℓ depending only on the num...