In parecon, it constitutes a replacement for the mainstream economic conception of economic freedom, which Albert and Hahnel argue that by its very vagueness has allowed it to be abused by capitalist ideologues.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

A certain vagueness may also be caused by tactical appreciation of the fact that the present council meeting is a semipublic affair, with no fewer than six Soviet correspondents accredited.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

This form of ambiguity is closely related to vagueness.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The fifth and sixth paradoxes are also a single paradox and is usually thought to relate to the vagueness of language.

Those who work within the free software community have searched for less ambiguous terms in efforts to refine their definition so there is no confusion, but have struggle to find words that do not yield vagueness.

Research in NLP evaluation has received considerable attention, because the definition of proper evaluation criteria is one way to specify precisely an NLP problem, going thus beyond the vagueness of tasks defined only as language understanding or language generation.

Fuzzy logic is the most common technique for dealing with vagueness.

In everyday speech, vagueness is an inevitable, often even desired effect of language usage.

However, in most specialized texts ( e. g., legal documents ), vagueness is distracting and should be avoided whenever possible.

The philosophical question of what the best theoretical treatment of vagueness is-which is closely related to the problem of the paradox of the heap-has been the subject of much philosophical debate.

In the common law system, vagueness is a possible legal defence against by-laws and other regulations.

In the US this is known as the vagueness doctrine and in Europe as the principle of legal certainty.

The history of the problem of vagueness is traced, from the first Sorites Paradox to contemporary attempts to deal with higher-order vagueness such as many-valued logic, supervaluationism, and fuzzy logic.

It is essential to realize that fuzzy logic uses truth degrees as a mathematical model of the vagueness phenomenon while probability is a mathematical model of ignorance.

One crucial requirement is to add enough vagueness so as to make problems manageable while still retaining enough precision for answering the important questions ( such as " may the program crash?

There was vagueness and confusion over the nature of the 1843 Organic Law, in particular whether it was a constitutional or statutory.

There was vagueness and confusion over the nature of the 1843 Organic Law, in particular whether it was a constitutional or statutory.

Use of mat is censored in the media and use of mat in public constitutes a form of disorderly conduct, punishable under article 20. 1. 1 of the Offences Code of Russia, although it is only enforced episodically, in particular due to vagueness of the legal definition.

Even such apparently unambiguous concepts such as gender can be subject to vagueness problems, not just from transsexuals ' gender transitions but also from certain genetic conditions which can give an individual both male and female biological traits ( see intersexual ).

Considers vagueness as both a useful and unavoidable aspect of realms from everyday life to computing.

In church matters, as in philosophy, the two were opposed — Pletho advocated a partial return to Greek paganism in the form of a syncretic union between Christianity and Zoroastrianism ; while Georgios, more cautious, pressed the necessity for ecclesiastical union with Rome on doctrinal grounds, and was instrumental in drawing up a form which from its vagueness and ambiguity might be accepted by both parties.

Even so, Soviet attacks on composers were both arbitrary and unpredictable, due in no small part to vagueness surrounding the theory of socialist realism in music and how it should be applied.

The vagueness of the intuitionistic notion of truth often leads to misinterpretations about its meaning.

But even without adding this element to the story, the vagueness of the account prohibits one from being objectively clear about which formalization truly captures its essence.

Gorin v. United States was cited in many later espionage cases for its discussion of the charge of " vagueness " argument made against the terminology used in certain portions of the law, such as what constitutes " national defense " information.

It also, by its vagueness, is almost as broad as the wording in the 1935 statute.

Naïve realism may accommodate these facts as they stand by virtue of its very vagueness ( or ‘ open-texture ’): it isn ’ t specific or detailed enough to be refuted by such cases.

The New Jersey Superior Court ruled the law was void because of its vagueness.

In Papachristou v. Jacksonville,, the Court held that a traditional vagrancy law was void for vagueness because its “ broad scope and imprecise terms denied proper notice to potential offenders and permitted police officers to exercise unfettered discretion in the enforcement of the law .” In Brown v. Texas,, the Court struck down Texas ’ s stop-and-identify law as violating the Fourth Amendment because it allowed police officers to stop individuals without “ specific, objective facts establishing reasonable suspicion to believe the suspect was involved in criminal activity .” And in Kolender v. Lawson,, the Court struck down a California stop-and-identify law that required a suspect to provide “ credible and reliable identification ” upon request.

Some attacked it for its apparent discontinuity with Utilitarianism, while others criticized its vagueness.

Critics of the concept argue that its vagueness undermines its effectiveness ; that it has become little more than a vehicle for activists wishing to promote certain causes ; and that it does not help the research community understand what security means or help decision makers to formulate good policies.

The Latin term does not a have a legal definition and possibly was deliberately was chosen for its vagueness.

Many organizations criticised this clause for its vagueness.

Conversely, others have criticized the new test for its apparent vagueness, contending that it permits financially powerful organizations such as the RIAA and MPAA to effectively hinder development of new technology by active pursuit of litigation against the developers and distributors.

Jon Pareles of The New York Times described it as " inspirational ", and felt that due to its vagueness, the song is would be applicable to all listeners, not just Carey.

According to Aronowitz, the vagueness of Luxembourgian democracy is one reason for its initial difficulty in gaining widespread support.

Aoun's main objection to the Taif Agreement was its vagueness as to Syrian withdrawal from the country.

The detection, with its emphasis on who-was-where-and-when, is a little too like Ngaio Marsh of the period, and there is some vagueness in the motivation, but this is as taut and atmospheric as any she wrote.