"By declaring war against an undifferentiated, undefined and fundamentally vague phenomenon like global terrorism, or terrorism with global reach, we in a sense opened the gates to a lot of countries to leap into this exercise on our backs.
Hamilton explicitly asserts that the conditions he defends are 'salient features' of an unavoidably vague phenomenon.
Orwell's "modern English" version, by contrast, is teeming with nominalizations (considerations, conclusion, activities, tendency, capacity, unpredictable) and other vague abstractions (phenomena, success, failure, element).
Fuzzy system modelling provides a strict mathematical environment in which vague conceptual phenomena can be rigorously studied.
The proposed fuzzy approach provides a strict mathematical environment in which vague conceptual phenomena in scale prediction problem can rigorously be studied.
I understand that for many climate change is still a vague and distant phenomenon.
So that in most of the capitals of the world, on January 3rd, there was an expectation, however vague, of some imminent phenomenon in the sky; and as the night followed the sunset round the globe, thousands of men turned their eyes skyward to see - the old familiar stars just as they had always been.
The tip of the tongue feeling may perhaps be best understood as one of those vague and contentless fringe consciousness phenomena discussed by Mangan (2001).
If these phenomena make you vaguely uncomfortable so far, perhaps I can assuage that feeling simply by quoting Schrödinger, who purportedly said after his development of quantum theory, "I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it".
However, fuzzy logic provides a useful tool for dealing with decisions in which the phenomena are imprecise and vague.
