We've been told that falsehoods aren't falsehoods – they are simply imprecise statements.
As the Iraq weapons of mass destruction fiasco demonstrated, exaggerated and imprecise statements, when endlessly repeated and aggregated, can eventually lead to warped cognition.
The fuzzy set theory enables a formal description of uncertainty and imprecise statements.
Such imprecise statements, however, should be taken at least with a grain of salt.
Test readers mentioned also problems with ambiguous or imprecise statements like, "it may be possible", "it could", "it might be".
The reviewers suggested several major points for improvement: 1) The paper contains a number of imprecise statements that should be corrected by careful editing of the manuscript.
For this reason, it may be possible that in the present study imprecise statements about the margin fit were mostly found in the case of composite restorations.
In the Discussion, it would be useful if the authors briefly compared the results from the honeybee with those from Nasonia. 1) The paper contains a number of imprecise statements that should be corrected by careful editing of the manuscript.
For the present analysis, deaths of unknown or ill-defined cause were redistributed by age group and sex among the other categories of causes, assuming that imprecise statements concern all causes in the same proportion.
This model allows designers to describe their preferences on different criteria in imprecise linguistic statements.
