Qualitative data analysis has been criticised for a lack of credibility over recent years when vagueness afforded to the reporting how findings are attained. In response, there growing body literature emphasising need detail methods qualitative analysis. This paper adds this knowledge by presenting reflexive narrative review development modified version ‘phenomenological hermeneutical method in...

This paper investigates the bodily signals of vagueness. After presenting the conceptual notion of vagueness by contrasting with uncertainty, approximation, confusion and ambiguity, the notion of “metadiscursive vagueness signal” is presented, a case of metadiscursive signals that convey “I am being vague”. Then a qualitative analysis of bodily signals of vagueness is presented, while singling ...

Vagueness and comparison are linked in different ways. Vague predicates typically support comparison; several influential semantic analyses of comparative constructions are based on prior accounts of vagueness; and a notion of comparison or similarity plays an important role in many accounts of vagueness. However, the subtlety and significance of the places where vagueness and comparison do not...

2 Vagueness, Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic 2 2.1 Vagueness and Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Vagueness and Fuzzy Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3 What Is Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Agenda of Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

This paper examines the intersections between trauma and literature crime fiction, more specifically. By looking at representations of in it is argued here that novels involves a multilayered complex discourse generates its own narrative, one relies on techniques like fragmentation, repetition, puzzle-solving, deliberate vagueness, obscurity. It also proposed use as lens to examine narratives b...

In this paper I provide a different justification for a margin for error principle for vagueness centred on the idea of sorites susceptibility. This justification can provide an alternative basis for an epistemicist theory of vagueness, and, alternatively, could be used to ground a form of agnosticism about vagueness alternative and incompatible to Wright (2003b). I argue that we should prefer ...

Explicit density-dependence differs from density-vagueness in the sort of regulation imposed on populations. Explicit density-dependence implies regulation toward a central equilibrium point, whereas density-vagueness implies population change away from the two extremes of extinction and immense densities. Density-vagueness does not much concern regulation within the broad range of medial densi...

Current approaches in Digital .Humanities tend to ignore a central aspect of any hermeneutic introspection: the intrinsic vagueness of analyzed texts. Especially when dealing with historical documents neglecting vagueness has important implications on the interpretation of the results. In this paper we present current limitation of annotation approaches and describe a current methodology for an...

We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...