One issue, however, is whether traditional criteria (or others as may be posed) are sufficiently specific so as to skirt vagueness problems that all such artifacts may face (Thomasson 2005) and provide markers of being a bona fide instance of a multiple work or a replica of all other bona fide instances (Goodman 1968/1976).
The resolution's vagueness remains a problem but may provide an opportunity.
The collected data used to establish a fuzzy mathematic model to capture the ambiguity and vagueness of the problem and the mathematical model is solved using fuzzy optimization with respect to the constraints.
So it is far from clear at this stage how well the supervaluational solution, or indeed any solution based on vagueness, to the Problem of the Many will do in future years.
'Epistemic' arguments that the only way to solve the paradox is to deny the truth of step 2 (so that vagueness is a problem of ignorance as to where the sharp boundary is between tires that are and are not bald) imply that there is always a right answer to the application of a law stated in vague language.
This vagueness is the problem with situating the recent racist violence as a product of "incivility".
This vagueness is the problem with situating the recent racist violence as a product of "incivility". That framing prompts a conversation that tends to be wishy-washy and lends itself to a pointless chin-stroking: Perhaps Trump goes too far in his speeches, but does the media not also go too far, at times?
The phrase, Erskine made it known, was in the spirit of Matthew Arnold, if not his exact words, and, while arresting, it suffers, as does so much of Arnold's rhetoric, from several problems: vagueness, an openness to the charge of elitism and, most damagingly, the impossibility of being widely achieved.
Random theory is a powerful hand set for modeling uncertainty and vagueness in various problems arising in the field of science and engineering.
Probability theory is a powerful hand set for modeling uncertainty and vagueness in various problems arising in the field of science and engineering.
On the other side, fuzzy set theory is a powerful hand set for modelling uncertainty and vagueness in various problems arising in the field of science and engineering.
