Vague

Keyword: Vague


Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/08/2017
Quote from "Topics: Chapter I. Singular Systems"

…an assertion is comprehensive in so far as it extends the person to whom it is addressed a certain latitude in the interpretation of it; it is vague in so far as it...

Manuscript | Posted 21/08/2017
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Topics. Chapter I. Singular Systems. MS [R] 151

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 3 pp.
Firstness, or qualities, are positive albeit vague determinations. Vagueness and generality discriminated.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/08/2017
Quote from "Foundations of Mathematics [R]"

If a sign allows a latitude of choice to the utterer in certain respects and within certain limits, as to what its object or meaning shall be, it may be called vague...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/08/2017
Quote from "Foundations of Mathematics [R]"

If a sign allows the utterer a certain latitude of choice as to what his meaning may be; so that he may perhaps defend its applicability in several ways […] then the sign...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/08/2017
Quote from "Foundations of Mathematics [R]"

If a sign is apt to represent many things, the option as to what single thing it shall be taken to represent may be reserved by the utterer of it, to whom it naturally...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/08/2017
Quote from "Issues of Pragmaticism"

Every utterance naturally leaves the right of further exposition in the utterer; and therefore, in so far as a sign is indeterminate, it is vague, unless it is expressly or by a well-understood...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "Vague (in logic)"

Vague (in logic) [Lat, vagus, rambling, indefinite]: Ger. unbestimmt ; Fr. vague ; Ital. vago. Indeterminate in...