Abstract Is it possible to maintain classical logic, stay close semantics, and yet accept that language might be semantically indeterminate? The article gives an affirmative answer by Ramsifying semantics , which yields a new semantic theory remains much closer than supervaluationism but at the same time avoids problematic presupposition of determinacy. resulting Ramsey is developed in detail, ...

This paper shows imperfect competition can lead to indeterminacy in aggregate output in a standard DSGE model with imperfect competition. Indeterminacy arises in the model from the composition of aggregate output. In sharp contrast to the indeterminacy literature pioneered by Benhabib and Farmer [3] and Gali [19], indeterminacy in our model is global; hence it is more robust to structural param...

In this contribution I address the type of emergency that threatens a state’s monopoly of violence, meaning that the state’s competence to provide citizens with elementary security is challenged. The question is, whether actions taken by the state to ward off these threats (should) fall within the ambit of the criminal law. A central problem is the indeterminacy that is inherent in the state of...

In historical indeterminacy, it is known that an event stored in a temporal database did in fact occur, but it is not known exactly when the event occurred. We present the possible tuples data model, in which each indeterminate event is represented with a set of possible events that delimits when the event might have occurred, and a probability distribution over that set. We extend the TQuel qu...