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...uption Social, political and economic consequences of corruption Subject positions Metaphors Conclusion 4 Vagueness and specificity – aims of the fight against corruption and specifications of the uncorrupted society ‘Representation’ Aims of the fight against corruption ‘Emergent openness of interpretation...

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...s not a simple matter, that... TECHNICAL NOTE - Complexity Theory and Ambiguity or Vagueness A Glossary of the terms used here Ambiguity (or indet... ...ended meaning ("contextual disambiguating" which often leads to a focal meaning). Vagueness arises when there are "borderline cases" of the existi... ...heap (the sorites or heap paradox)?, etc. Fuzzy logic truth values do not eliminate vagueness - they only assign continuous values ("fuzzy sets") to... ... "borderline cases" in the future application of a concept (or a predicate). While vagueness can be minimized by specifying rules (through precisif... ... seem that a complexity theory formalism can accurately describe both ambiguity and vagueness: Language can be construed as a self-organizing netwo... ...leading to competing, distinct, but equally valid, meanings. Borderline cases (and vagueness) arise at the "edge of chaos" - in concepts and predic...

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...s not a simple matter, that... TECHNICAL NOTE - Complexity Theory and Ambiguity or Vagueness A Glossary of the terms used here Ambiguity (or indet... ...ended meaning ("contextual disambiguating" which often leads to a focal meaning). Vagueness arises when there are "borderline cases" of the existi... ...heap (the sorites or heap paradox)?, etc. Fuzzy logic truth values do not eliminate vagueness - they only assign continuous values ("fuzzy sets") to... ... "borderline cases" in the future application of a concept (or a predicate). While vagueness can be minimized by specifying rules (through precisif... ... seem that a complexity theory formalism can accurately describe both ambiguity and vagueness: Language can be construed as a self-organizing netwo... ...leading to competing, distinct, but equally valid, meanings. Borderline cases (and vagueness) arise at the "edge of chaos" - in concepts and predic...

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...e existing topics and it represents a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined-ness, unknown, incompleteness...

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...irst the image scared him. In time he was enabled to smile it into phantom vagueness. The diplomatist diplomatically informed him, it might happen tha...

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...gan to be ill.” This was not the only example she gave me of her ex- treme vagueness about the previous years and the line which marked off the period...

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...is love, he endeavoured to ex- cuse himself to himself from that charge of vagueness and laxness which his friend Conway Dalrymple had brought against... ...t of reticence in your words, so contrived that you might fall back on the vagueness of your expression for protection, should you hereafter see fit t...

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...eturn for her information he felt his lips remain closed to the successive vaguenesses of rejoinder, of objection, that rose for him from within. Char... ...of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere in his inward vagueness as a lamp before a shrine twinkles in the dark perspective of a c... ...granted moreover her com panion’s intelligence of her doubt that the mere vagueness of her question could say it all. “What is it after all that they... ...That I should ask her?” He put the question as an effect of his remnant of vagueness, but this had also its own effect. Maggie wondered an instant; af... ...rhythmically waltzing. His love of music, unlike his other loves, owned to vaguenesses, but while, on his comparatively shaded sofa, and smoking, smok... ...as ever absent but, between the lighted candles, the picture distinct, the vagueness spread itself about him like some boundless carpet, a surface del... ...constant diversions, and made him in fact by saying it profess a momentary vagueness. She had to explain to him that it was Fanny Assingham she wanted... ...o me.” Her husband attended, but the momentary effect of his attention was vagueness again, and the refuge of his vagueness was a gasp. “Poor dear lit... ...ality of condition for them had been all the result of the latter’s native vagueness about her own advantages. The earlier elements flushed into life a...

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... definition ap- pears to us peculiarly liable to misapprehension; and much vagueness and some narrow views have, we conceive, occa- sionally resulted ... ...d to denote ideas of very great importance, and it is impossible that some vagueness should not have been thrown upon the ideas themselves by loosenes... ... the defini- tions of them, have consequently participated hitherto in the vagueness and uncertainty which has pervaded that most difficult and unsett...

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... prac- tice those nice relations of size, proportion and color,’ is a mere vagueness of speech, which may mean much, or little, or nothing, and which ...

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...ery largely into the necessities of life. Hence alone is that suspicion of vagueness that often hangs about the purpose of a romance: it is clear enou...

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...e planet. But the enemy is not just “terrorism,” some generic evil. 2 This vagueness blurs the strategy .The catastrophic threat at this moment in his...

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...der and grow old Of loneliness, — told only what was best, And with a saving vagueness, I should know Till I knew more. And had I known even then — Af...

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...s. Mountstuart detested the analysis of her sentence. It had an outline in vagueness, and was flung out to be apprehended, not dissected. Her direc- t...