Isaac Levi (1974 , 1985 makes a distinction between "imprecise" credences and "indeterminate" credences (the scare quotes are indicating that these aren't uses of the terms "imprecise" and "indeterminate" that accord with the usage I adopt in this article).
What is true is that there are cases where imprecise probabilities can represent the distinction in a way that impacts on decision making.
In practice, this distinction can be imprecise: a phishing mail can be used to seduce users to click on a link to steal information, which is ICT as a modus operandi, but also installing malware, which is a computer integrity offense.
So my earlier remarks on weight/balance should not be read as the claim that imprecise probabilities can always represent the weight/balance distinction.
But the imprecise language suggested that Mr. Romney had stumbled over the distinction at the core of the debate over whether a military strike against Iran is justified.
The distinction between a polypeptide and a protein is imprecise and largely academic; some authorities have adopted, as an upper limit on the molecular weight of a polypeptide, 10,000 (that of a peptide composed of about 100 amino acids).
Romney Stumbles in Explaining Iran Policy But the imprecise language suggested that Mr. Romney had stumbled over the distinction at the core of the debate over whether a military strike against Iran is justified.
Especially because the distinction between conflict and post-conflict can be so imprecise, it is worth to note the highly political nature of determining when conflict or crisis ends.
Even the language in which the questions are formulated is imprecise, including for example the exact nature of the opposition or complementarity implicit in the distinction "analogue" vs. "digital," "local" vs. "global," "parallel" vs. "serial," "addressed" vs. "associative". Minsky and Papert strive to bring these concepts into a sharper focus insofar as they apply to the perceptron.
Additionally, the distinction between "doing an activity," "having an activity done to you," and "observing an activity" is imprecise and may also be subjectively interpreted by participants.
