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Kees van Deemter: Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

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  1. The term is taken from Huth and Ryan (2004).

  2. Until recently, only the sub-valuationist proposal investigated in Hyde (1997) was rather well-known, but recent proposals by Priest and by Ripley (2011) have substantially extended this line of research.

  3. But see Shapiro (2006) on how by distinguishing between the artefacts and the representators of a formal model, we can accommodate false clarity at the level of the model without thereby underestimating the flexibility of vague expressions in actual communication.

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Thanks to Kees van Deemter for helpful comments.

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Allo, P. Kees van Deemter: Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness. Minds & Machines 22, 41–45 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9251-1

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