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The words “vagueness” and “vague” are often used to describe a quality, a thought, or a statement which is “incomplete” or “lacking precision.” The Oxford English Dictionary defines vagueness (the quality or condition of being vague) as “a lack of distinctness or preciseness; indefiniteness.” Similarly, the word “vague,” is defined as “not definitely or precisely expressed; deficient in details or particulars.” Often in the scientific context, the expressions “lacking precision” and “deficient in details” bring negative connotations. We live in the era, in which scientific perspective and the utmost precision of digital computers are highly regarded. Thus, in a way, the “vagueness” of our thoughts, “fuzziness” of our linguistic expressions, “indefinability” of our feelings, and “intangibility” of our perceptions of the external world are undervalued. The transcendental aspects of our human existence are reduced by “precise” description and “quantitative” analytical methods. In the age of fast, exact, digital computers, precision is deemed a virtue.
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Kwiatkowska, M. (2013). The Beauty of Vagueness. In: Seising, R., Trillas, E., Moraga, C., Termini, S. (eds) On Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35641-4_50
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