http://blog.oup.com/2010/02/weather/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 14:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/02/weather/#comment-157103 Vague Measurements : OUPblog Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:39:16 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7579#comment-157103 [...] Filed in A-Featured , History , Philosophy , Science , Technology on March 24, 2010 | SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Vague Measurements", url: "http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/vague/" }); Kees van Deemter is a Reader in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.  His book, Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness,  looks at how vagueness dominates the way we speak and think – the “tall” woman, the “obese” man.  Using mathematical logic, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, Kees van Demmter weaves an intriguing account of the nature and importance of vaguenss in our lives, and the efforts of scientists to capture and represent it.  In the excerpt below we learn about about the vagueness inherent in something that is supposed to be precise: measurement.  Read a previous OUPblog post by the author here. [...] [...] Filed in A-Featured , History , Philosophy , Science , Technology on March 24, 2010 | SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Vague Measurements", url: "http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/vague/" }); Kees van Deemter is a Reader in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.  His book, Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness,  looks at how vagueness dominates the way we speak and think – the “tall” woman, the “obese” man.  Using mathematical logic, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, Kees van Demmter weaves an intriguing account of the nature and importance of vaguenss in our lives, and the efforts of scientists to capture and represent it.  In the excerpt below we learn about about the vagueness inherent in something that is supposed to be precise: measurement.  Read a previous OUPblog post by the author here. [...]

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