The Global Trends Reports represent UNHCR’s key tool to share information about annual developments in relation displacement, primarily through numbers. Among the many subjects covered, they often also address different forms of accommodation. But how do such quantifications produce (non)knowledge and link with humanitarian landscape? This article explores accommodation categories, quantificati...

This paper motivates and explores an expressivist theory of vagueness, modeled on Allan Gibbard’s (2003) normative expressivism. It shows how Chris Kennedy’s (2007) semantics for gradable adjectives can be adjusted to fit into a theory on Gibbardian lines, where assertions constrain not just possible worlds but plans for action. Vagueness, on this account, is literally indecision about where to...

Abstract. Vagueness is blamed for the Sorites Paradox. But the nature of vagueness is not well understood. Initially characterizing vagueness in terms of Sainsbury’s boundary metaphor, I argue that all semantic theories failing to do justice to this boundary metaphor are false. However, it is unclear what kind of semantic theory of vagueness is immune to this charge. I explore the boundary meta...

From their inception, fuzzy sets were introduced by Zadeh [55] with a view to formalize human knowledge in engineering problems. This implies fuzzy sets had somehow to come to grip with some aspects of natural language modeling, and in particular, with the concept of vagueness, i.e., the idea that the extension of some natural language predicates lacks clear truth conditions. The claim that fuz...