By contrast, the de dicto account corresponds to a purely linguistic notion of vagueness. |
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Yet a vague assent to a vague assertion only yields twice as much vagueness. |
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There were many good memories, but I have a lot of vagueness over the years. |
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The alternative has serious problems of its own, replacing faux precision with admitted vagueness and subjectivity. |
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The vagueness of the crimes and ties between the characters only adds to the baffling nature of the plot. |
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I am not very proud of this translation, for even in its vagueness it is overexact. |
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This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods. |
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The report is also critical of road safety education because of its lack of prominence, vagueness and poor training for teachers. |
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The cardinal sin in scientific communication is vagueness, not bad grammar. |
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Many people in York suspect the vagueness the company expresses about its intentions could be a smokescreen. |
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Your vagueness, however, is understandable given the present state of affairs for the mass of the population. |
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There is no bar on her honesty, she is extremely frank, although her candour tends to be clouded by a vagueness of expression. |
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Moreover, it is said that the vagueness in the description prevents the creation of a right of way at common law. |
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Why, you may well ask, does The Register class vagueness of this order as a clarification? |
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The 'story', if it can be called that, opens in mystery and proceeds through ambiguity, equivocation, and vagueness. |
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His reform strategies tend to be weakened either by vagueness or internal contradiction. |
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Her extensive understanding of war's horror contrasts with the ridiculous vagueness of her father's telegram announcing Victor's wounding. |
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The question is, however, whether the traditional concept of a rule can be maintained if allowance is made for vagueness or fuzziness. |
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If there is vagueness in his disclosures about how he will approach management, there is no mistaking the belief that underpins them. |
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More important than her posture of self-martyring altruism was the vagueness of her masochistic grandiosity. |
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The vagueness of the date arises from the fact that the event seems to have had no place in the early Arabic annalistic tradition. |
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He only got this job because we mistook his incoherencies and vagueness for nerves. |
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This lack of focus may result in some vagueness as regards insight on the advancement of participatory forestry. |
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Our vagueness about what we are doing encourages a certain incuriousness about whom we are doing it for. |
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On the one hand this is an enormously generous, inclusive and warm-hearted book, but, on the other, it carries these qualities to the point of vagueness and idealism. |
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Among the failings readily imputable to it are the vagueness of the drafting and its effort to say too much. |
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Miscommunication, confusion, vagueness, or evasiveness between yourself and those in your environment is likely. |
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Maybe this has to do with the intangibility of sound as a medium or a vagueness to the general lexicon of sound. |
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We avoid thereby vagueness in the translation of local terms because our staff has real contact with the argot used in the translation field. |
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Despite that imperative, myths and vagueness prevail in schools about the potency of science in thinking about the issues that vex society. |
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The story of Moses may have some truth at its core, but it is buried in layers of bronze age vagueness and myth. |
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But there is also a certain vagueness, populism and reluctance to answer key questions. |
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The Bloc had many reservations about the vagueness that remained and surrounded the concept of the family. |
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At that time I and many of my colleagues were concerned with the bill's vagueness. |
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Semantic uncertainty arises from vagueness in the definition of terms or lack of consistency in different assessors' usage of them. |
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This provision risks being the source of litigation because of the vagueness of its terms. |
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The two proscribed grounds with which we are dealing, have not been defined in the Act, notwithstanding their vagueness. |
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The generality and vagueness of the concept has been the subject of considerable criticism. |
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We want to express concern at the vagueness of text referring to the role of Civil Society. |
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And the vagueness was because that principle of my terrene nature which was the seat of earthly sensing, and of memories of things perceived, was left with the body. |
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But it would be hard to argue, given the vagueness of his campaign, that he won a specific mandate. |
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But his campaign has relied on that same style of vagueness in its latest campaign ad. |
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The conduct for which Goldman is being charged could be criminal as well as civil, despite its vagueness and lack of fair warning. |
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The Dickenses were to move house twice during the first two years of Charles's life, and the novelist later recalled Portsmouth with considerable vagueness. |
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Whilst facilitating the adoption of this model by employers, legislative vagueness about the issue subverts the effectiveness of union resistance. |
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The vagueness is what keeps us engaged until the surprise ending. |
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Fuzzy Logic accounts a lot better to uncertainty and impreciseness in data as well as to vagueness in decisions and classifications than Boolean Algorithms do. |
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Sadly, when it came, there was vagueness and woolliness in the possible use of pension fund assets for infrastructure. |
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Given the scale of intelligence needs in the context of the war against terrorism, the vagueness of the legal framework governing outsourcing of intelligence has been widely taken advantage of. |
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The proposed plan is riddled with vagueness, omissions, possible injustices and rife with sketchiness. |
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Yet in spite of this tactfulness, this polite vagueness at the heart of the book, she brings to life riveting stories and offers creative interpretations that, taken together, challenge current convention. |
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Leibniz, for instance, was neither the first nor the last to propose a language reform, in the quest for an ideal language, a mathematical language of science without vagueness and ambiguities. |
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Despite this vagueness it is notable that the Histories include a chapter on geography. |
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Furtwängler relied on degrees of vagueness, especially in Strauss, where he regularly allowed the edges of a chord to bleed, and let the waves of fast fiddle notes gurgle indistinctly. |
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Apart from the political and economic advantages of mystification coming from outside schools discussed above, which schools could resist, and perhaps do in some cases, why does such mystification and vagueness persist? |
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In response, concerns were expressed about the vagueness of the language, respect for the principle of legality, and preserving the independence of the Court. |
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Little judicial authority exists to remove this vagueness. |
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This decision raises many concerns, such as vagueness about which judicial instances will be empowered to decide which historical events will be considered as crimes. |
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In its vagueness, it goes some way to proving the opposite. |
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The vagueness of the notion, like that of the supernatural halo he discerns behind the grinning phiz of Mozart, hints at an uncertainty for which rhetoric must make sonorous, empty amends. |
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In particular, it should address the vagueness of the definition of terrorist act in the Criminal Code Act 1995, in order to ensure that its application is limited to offences that are indisputably terrorist offences. |
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But what is not arguable is the AOs broadness and vagueness, which if implemented will put the people's right to privacy in clear and present danger. |
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Cunning accounting creativity might exploit this vagueness. |
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In fact, it was this very vagueness that underlined the success. |
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The Japanese language acquires much of its beauty and strength from indirectness — or what English-speakers call vagueness, obscurity, or implied meaning. |
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Some were impossible to implement due to the vagueness of their content. |
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In relation to broadbanding the salaries structure and performance pay, the Nigerian delegation noted that the formula envisaged risked introducing vagueness into job definitions and post vacancies. |
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I take the view that vagueness about eventual membership and a fleshing out of the criteria will only delay the process, because this vagueness would be used as an excuse, from which nobody stands to benefit. |
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In this occurrence, however, the vagueness of the meeting arrangement was compounded by the inadequacy of subsequent communication between the two vessels. |
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The preventive measures being considered here are important and go some way towards offsetting the vagueness surrounding economic offences and the related sanctions. |
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The study of fuzzy differential equations forms a suitable setting for the mathematical modelling of real world problems in which uncertainty or vagueness pervades. |
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He took him on the long walks of which he was fond, and made him in some sort his humble confidant, talking to him of himself and his plans with large and braggart vagueness. |
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