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...

I shall argue that vagueness, understood as a semantic phenomenon, can be accommodated within standard semantics by assimilating it to contingency in standard modal semantics and suitably modifying the pragmatics. I claim that vagueness in natural language is not a defect and that accommodating it is therefore obligatory for semantic frameworks for natural languages. In section 17.2, I interpre...

In semantic interoperability, the main issue is to develop semantic models of geographic data that will include definitions and vocabulary necessary for data integration. Geographic data must be organized in categorization schemata before it can be integrated, but those schemata, exhibit vagueness. Vagueness can be found in geographic categories not only in the cognitive aspect of prototypical ...

Ontologies play a crucial role in the development of the Semantic Web as a means for defining shared terms in web resources. They are formulated in web ontology languages, which are based on expressive description logics. Significant research efforts in the semantic web community are recently directed towards representing and reasoning with uncertainty and vagueness in ontologies for the Semant...

Abstract. Vagueness is blamed for the Sorites Paradox. But the nature of vagueness is not well understood. Initially characterizing vagueness in terms of Sainsbury’s boundary metaphor, I argue that all semantic theories failing to do justice to this boundary metaphor are false. However, it is unclear what kind of semantic theory of vagueness is immune to this charge. I explore the boundary meta...

Vagueness and comparison are linked in different ways. Vague predicates typically support comparison; several influential semantic analyses of comparative constructions are based on prior accounts of vagueness; and a notion of comparison or similarity plays an important role in many accounts of vagueness. However, the subtlety and significance of the places where vagueness and comparison do not...

This paper investigates the way that grammatical (lexical semantic) features of linguistic expressions influence vagueness, focusing on the interpretation of the positive (unmarked) form of gradable adjectives. I begin by developing a semantic analysis of the positive form of ‘relative’ gradable adjectives, in which vagueness derives from the truth conditions of the predicate, which require an ...

A new solution is offered for the ancient ’sorites’ paradox of vagueness. The sorites paradox arises if it is assumed that if two objects are indistinguishable, then a vague predicate (e.g., large, or small) can never distinguish between them. The proposed solution to the paradox depends on a systematic ambiguity that is displayed by vague predicates as well as vague relations (e.g., the relati...

This paper claims that the vagueness inherent in gradable adjectives is a reflection of an independently-motivated, underlying measurement mechanism, called the analog magnitude system (AMS). The AMS is a language external system that can be called on to help verify sentences. Differences between positive forms of gradable adjectives like tall (1) and their comparative forms (2), in terms of va...