Sentence examples for a vague case from inspiring English sources

Cases of ambiguity can be like this: one can imagine a sorites series involving something that is clearly a baseball bat at t1 that is changed particle by particle into a chiropteran with borderline cases of each mid-series, thus being a vague case of 'bat' in both senses.

This would help avoid making conclusions potentially biased by case-mix and vague case definitions.

As a result, there is tremendous pressure to diagnose vague cases, Frances said.

The advantage of this approach is that personality attributions readily admit of vague cases.

Eight of the 12 panelists recently described being in a strange sort of emotional netherworld — a vague place — since the case ended.

But a lot of his patient's voices begin hearing more neutral voices a disembodied laugh or a vague warning and in those cases, shaping the interpretation can make a big difference.

Scattered on the bench seat are other police tools — a big black flashlight, a notepad in a vaguely martial leather case.

In the case of a vague predicate F that is vulnerable to a Sorites paradox, the inconsistent propositions are that some things are Fs, some things are not Fs, any object that closely resembles (in a suitable respect) something that is F is itself F, and that there are chains of 'suitably resembling' objects between an F and a non-F.

Additionally, the contested.health gTLD has fewer safeguards still: only a "requirement to comply with all applicable laws" (which should always be the case), and a vague, undefined obligation "to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures … [for] sensitive health … data" (which also is the law and a given in many countries) [ 21].

Arguments that the application of a vague expression is indeterminate in borderline cases (or in some borderline cases) imply that the application of a law that can be expressed in vague language is indeterminate in some cases.

By legal standards, Mr. Gillers said, the state constitutional guarantee of a "sound basic education" is a vague one, making this a difficult case to win.