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...Jeffrey M. Perl In this essay review of Megan Quigley's Modern Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language (2015), the editor of Common Knowledge comments on the explicit relationship between that book's arguments and those of the journal's six-part series “Fuzzy Studies: A Symposium...

... “Aristotelian, bivalent logic” in favor of a “fuzzy logic” based on Zadeh's “fuzzy set theory.” This introductory piece relates these theoretical works of the past half-century to the sorites paradox and to classical issues of vagueness raised and still unresolved in Western philosophy. Returning then to Rorty...

...Morten Axel Pedersen; Rane Willerslev As part of a Common Knowledge symposium on the “consequence of blur,” this article reassesses the anthropologist E. B. Tylor’s famous but vague concept of the animist soul as an optimal reflection of the soul’s fuzzy ontological status among animist peoples...

... in this article by a critique of reductionist labels. Embracing the concept of vagueness offers an alternative way to think about Cerrate and similar borderline cases—not in terms of fixed categories (“Byzantine” or “Western”), but as points on an art-historical continuum that is enriched by acknowledging...

...”), and “imaginative forms” (“life as text”). Part 3 considers what Geertz might mean by describing text as a “dangerously unfocused term,” through discussing how bilingualism is negotiated in poetry. Three areas of vagueness are explored: the linguistic boundaries in a bilingual poem, the definition of a poem...

... in northwest India. This transfer of technology and expertise took place even though Islam is (thought of as) fiercely resistant to alien religious influence. Religious pluralism appears to have been at work when creedal specifics were left blurry, vague, and unstipulated. © 2013 by Duke University Press...

... the logic of architecture, while Schoenberg and Janáček nearly dissolved the acoustic paradigm of sound. This essay argues that the curious positioning of Central Europe, with its frequently changing borders and national entities, conduced both to positive experiments in cultural vagueness...

... rather than detriment. Rorty extended W. B. Gallie's idea of “essentially contested concepts” from the moral and political spheres to the epistemic, thereby rendering such terms as truth , reason , and evidence inherently vague, which means that they are defined not a priori but only in the context...

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... is trou- bling about these cases is that, though paradoxical, they are by no means excep- tional. What makes it possible for “heap” and “bald” to generate the paradoxes is that they are vague or fuzzy predicates: they have clear cases (clear heaps and clearly bald men), clear countercases (clear...

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... importance. The fuzziness in this case was by no means positive: imprecise nuances and vague definitions were exac- erbated by the theater of war between the English and the French. War indeed provided an all-­embracing context for issues of identity — of the individual, the family, the local...

... nourishing nudges or threatening viral overgrowth, experiments and vaguenesses, question marks and tempting paths that twist into darkness a few steps ahead. I see possibilities and dangers; I feel excitement and weariness, a blooming buzzing mass of tentative growths and struggles, along...

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... with which it revitalizes this by now automatic coupling. Townshend shows that Gothic structures and Gothic romances were linked by the same heated arguments over the valence of what he calls “Gothic antiquity”—a “mythical, vague, and somewhat nebulous sense of the national British past” that spanned...

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