My aim in this paper is to provide some introductory coordinates aiming at orienting a unified discourse on the doctrine of vagueness Peirce. After tracing stages Peircean scholarship that have brought concept into focus, I will show vagueness, as it appears philosophy, three-dimensional concept. Thus, while logical-semiotic dimension – and more specifically problem related quantification subje...

∗I would like to thank the editors Kathrin and Peter and an anonymous reviewer of Philosophy Compass for suggestions to improve the final version. Further thanks go to my colleagues Paul Egré, David Ripley and Robert van Rooij and the Australian philosopher and paraconsistent logician Dominic Hyde for discussion and comments at different stages. Thanks also to Pablo Visiers. This work was done ...

This paper analyzes communication with a language that is vague in the sense that identical messages do not always result in identical interpretations. It is shown that strategic agents frequently add to this vagueness by being intentionally vague, i.e. they deliberately choose less precise messages than they have to among the ones available to them in equilibrium. Having to communicate with a ...

At Linguistic Technology Systems, we are using Sequence Package Analysis (SPA) to architect a new, pragmatically-based part of speech tagging program to better conform to the fluidity and dynamism of human speech. This would allow natural language-driven voice user interfaces and audio mining programs – for use in both commercial and government applications – to adapt to the in situ constructio...

We report results of an experiment in which participants provided certainty equivalents for 15 risky or vague (with imprecise probabilities) two-outcome gambles. Participants made their decisions in three different settings: a) individually without prior social interactions, b) individually after discussing decisions with other participants and c) in groups of three. We also manipulated the deg...