{"id":3735,"date":"2018-07-11T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2018-07-12T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:52:50","slug":"kesa-van-demtera-lekcija-ne-gluzi-nenoteiktiba-ka-iedzimtais-greks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/kesa-van-demtera-lekcija-ne-gluzi-nenoteiktiba-ka-iedzimtais-greks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kees van Deemter lecture “Not Exactly: Vagueness as Original Sin?”"},"content":{"rendered":"On Thursday, 28 January Kim?\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Center for the Cognitive Sciences and Semantics<\/a>, University of Latvia, invited everyone to a lecture “Not Exactly: Vagueness as Original Sin?” by the world famous computational linguist and semanticist\u00a0Kees van Deemter<\/a>, who works at the Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen.<\/p>\n

Not everything is black and white. Our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness. Language is the most obvious example – for instance, when we describe someone as tall, it is as though there is a particular height beyond which a person can be considered ‘tall’. Likewise the terms ‘blond’ or ‘overweight’ in common usage.<\/p>\n

The talk, which is intended for non-specialist and specialists alike, will demonstratie the generality of the phenomenon of vagueness, in science as well as in daily life. In some ways, it is like Original Sin: a stain that can be diminished but never removed. The probabilistic approaches to vagueness have the future; however, this paradigm shift will come at a price. For if vagueness is taken seriously then life gets complicated – we will be expelled from Boole’s Paradise, where every statement was either true or false.<\/p>\n

This talk is related to van Deemter’s book \u201cNot Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness\u201d, which was released on 28 January, 2010 by the\u00a0Oxford University Press<\/em>. In the book van Deemter uses familiar everyday examples in a wide-ranging discussion touching on symbolic logic, game theory, computing, and biology. Van Deemter looks at challenges arising from this very human way of thinking and expression.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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