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Journal articles on the topic "Indeterminacy"

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Fanelli, Luca, and Marco M. Sorge. "Indeterminate forecast accuracy under indeterminacy." Journal of Macroeconomics 53 (September 2017): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2017.05.007.

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DALRYMPLE, MARY, TRACY HOLLOWAY KING, and LOUISA SADLER. "Indeterminacy by underspecification." Journal of Linguistics 45, no. 1 (January 28, 2009): 31–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226708005513.

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We examine the formal encoding of feature indeterminacy, focussing on case indeterminacy as an exemplar of the phenomenon. Forms that are indeterminately specified for the value of a feature can simultaneously satisfy conflicting requirements on that feature and thus are a challenge to constraint-based formalisms which model the compatibility of information carried by linguistic items by combining or integrating that information. Much previous work in constraint-based formalisms has sought to provide an analysis of feature indeterminacy by departing in some way from ‘vanilla’ assumptions either about feature representations or about how compatibility is checked by integrating information from various sources. In the present contribution we argue instead that a solution to the range of issues posed by feature indeterminacy can be provided in a ‘vanilla’ feature-based approach which is formally simple, does not postulate special structures or objects in the representation of case or other indeterminate features, and requires no special provision for the analysis of coordination. We view the value of an indeterminate feature such as case as a complex and possibly underspecified feature structure. Our approach correctly allows for incremental and monotonic refinement of case requirements in particular contexts. It uses only atomic boolean-valued features and requires no special mechanisms or additional assumptions in the treatment of coordination or other phenomena to handle indeterminacy. Our account covers the behaviour of both indeterminate arguments and indeterminate predicates, that is, predicates placing indeterminate requirements on their arguments.
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Du, Shigui, Jun Ye, Rui Yong, and Fangwei Zhang. "SIMPLIFIED NEUTROSOPHIC INDETERMINATE DECISION MAKING METHOD WITH DECISION MAKERS’ INDETERMINATE RANGES." JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 26, no. 6 (June 23, 2020): 590–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2020.12919.

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There exists the indeterminate situations of truth, falsity, indeterminacy degrees due to the uncertainty and inconsistency of decision makers’ arguments in a complicated decision making (DM) problem. Then, existing neutrosophic set cannot describe the indeterminate information of truth, falsity, indeterminacy degrees. It is noted that the simplified neutrosophic set (SNS) is depicted by truth, falsity, indeterminacy degrees, while a neutrosophic number (NN) can be flexibly depicted by its determinate part and its indeterminate part. Regarding the indeterminate situations of truth, falsity, indeterminacy degrees in indeterminate DM problems, this study first presents a simplified neutrosophic indeterminate set (SNIS) to express the hybrid information of SNS and NN and defines the score, accuracy, and certainty functions of simplified neutrosophic indeterminate elements (SNIEs) with indeterminate ranges to compare SNIEs. Then, we introduce a SNIE weighted arithmetic averaging (SNIEWAA) operator and a SNIE weighted geometric averaging (SNIEWGA) operator to aggregate simplified neutrosophic indeterminate information. Next, a multi-attribute DM approach with decision makers’ indeterminate ranges is established regarding the SNIEWAA and SNIEWGA operators in SNIS setting. Finally, the proposed DM approach is applied in a DM example on choosing a suitable slope design scheme to indicate the applicability and suitability of the proposed approach.
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Kistler, Max. "Indeterminate and vague causation." Lato Sensu: Revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences 11, no. 1 (November 29, 2024): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.20416/lsrsps.v11i1.4.

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Is it sometimes indeterminate whether two events or variables are causally related? Can causal statements be vague? The analysis of three potential types of cases of causal indeterminacy and causal vagueness yields an affirmative answer. The claim that some cases of omission, and some cases of prevention, give rise to indeterminate causal relations depends on the premise that omissions and preventions can be causal. A second type of indeterminate causation corresponds to causal statements whose truth value is indeterminate because they contain vague predicates. Such vagueness can have two sources. Only one yields indeterminate causation. Finally, there is indeterministic probabilistic causation. If “indeterministic overdetermination” is interpreted as metaphysical rather than epistemic, it is inappropriate to speak of indeterminacy. Rather, there is no fact of the matter about which of the two sources of probability raising really is the cause. It is more appropriate to say that both are contributing causes. “Indeterministic trumping” gives rise to a form of indeterminacy that belongs to the category of the open future. Once the effect has occurred, no indeterminacy remains.
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Hertzmann, Aaron. "Visual Indeterminacy in GAN Art." Leonardo 53, no. 4 (July 2020): 424–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01930.

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This paper explores visual indeterminacy as a description for artwork created with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Visual indeterminacy describes images that appear to depict real scenes, but on closer examination, defy coherent spatial interpretation. GAN models seem to be predisposed to producing indeterminate images, and indeterminacy is a key feature of much modern representational art, as well as most GAN art. The author hypothesizes that indeterminacy is a consequence of a powerful-but-imperfect image synthesis model that must combine general classes of objects, scenes and textures.
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Du, Shigui, Jun Ye, Rui Yong, and Fangwei Zhang. "Q-INDETERMINATE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT BETWEEN SIMPLIFIED NEUTROSOPHIC INDETERMINATE SETS AND ITS MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING METHOD." JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 27, no. 6 (July 15, 2021): 404–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2021.15254.

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Owing to the indeterminacy, incompleteness, and inconsistency of decision makers’ arguments/cognitions regarding complicated decision-making problems, the truth, falsity, and indeterminacy degrees given by decision makers may imply the partial certainty and partial uncertainty information. In this case, a simplified neutrosophic set (SNS) cannot express the uncertainty degrees of the truth, falsity, indeterminacy arguments. To depict the hybrid information of SNS and neutrosophic (indeterminate) numbers (NNs) together, this study presents a simplified neutrosophic indeterminate set (SNIS) to describe the uncertainty degrees of the truth, falsity, indeterminacy, and then based on the de-neutrosophication technology using the parameterized SNSs of SNISs we introduce the q-indeterminate correlation coefficients of SNISs with a parameter q ∈ [0, 1]. Next, a simplified neutrosophic indeterminate multicriteria decision-making method using the qindeterminate correlation coefficients of SNISs is established along with decision makers’ risk attitudes, such as the small risk for q = 0, the moderate risk for q = 0.5, and the large risk for q = 1, to carry out multicriteria decision-making problems in SNIS setting. Eventually, the proposed decision-making approach is applied in an example of selecting a satisfactory slope design scheme for an open pit mine to indicate the practicality and flexibility in SNIS setting.
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Waterton, Claire, and Kathryn Yusoff. "Indeterminate Bodies." Body & Society 23, no. 3 (August 2, 2017): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x17717111.

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Indeterminate Bodies organizes a number of theoretical and empirical studies around the concept and actuality of indeterminacy, as it relates to body and society. Located within the struggle to apprehend different categories of ‘body’ in the volatile flows of late-capital, indeterminacy is considered through such multiple incarnations as economy, contingency, inheritance, question, force, uncertainty, materiality and affective resistance to determination. While indeterminacy is often positioned as the ‘trouble’ or friction in subject/object knowledge-formation (framed as ontological or empirical challenge), it also engenders affects such that some subjects are both in and out of recognition. Questions of indeterminacy overlap with work on imperceptibility, giving rise to interlocked questions about the modes of representation, categorization, inclusion, exclusion and sensibility in the production of bodies. We address the hesitancies, difficulties and necessities of working with and through indeterminacy in order open up new descriptions, visions and modes of political work.
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McKenny, Gerald. "Human Nature and Biotechnological Enhancement: Some Theological Considerations." Studies in Christian Ethics 32, no. 2 (February 14, 2019): 229–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0953946819827139.

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Theologies of human nature routinely reflect the insights of evolutionary biology, for which human biological nature is variable, changing and indeterminate in its boundaries with other living things. However, these theologies do not yet reflect what biotechnology discloses about human biological nature, namely, that it is malleable and indeterminate in its boundaries with machines. Does respect for human biological nature as created by God, or protection of the human person whose nature it is, require us to refrain from taking advantage of its malleability and indeterminacy to select or design functions and traits? Or should we welcome malleability and indeterminacy as conditions for us to fulfill a vocation to determine our nature or bring it to perfection? And do malleability and indeterminacy render obsolete the notion that we look to our nature to determine what our good is? This article answers these questions.
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Osipov, Andrey. "On the completely indeterminate case for block Jacobi matrices." Concrete Operators 4, no. 1 (January 26, 2017): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/conop-2017-0005.

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Abstract We consider the infinite Jacobi block matrices in the completely indeterminate case, i. e. such that the deficiency indices of the corresponding Jacobi operators are maximal. For such matrices, some criteria of complete indeterminacy are established. These criteria are similar to several known criteria of indeterminacy of the Hamburger moment problem in terms of the corresponding scalar Jacobi matrices and the related systems of orthogonal polynomials.
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Dung, Leonard. "Preserving the Normative Significance of Sentience." Journal of Consciousness Studies 31, no. 1 (February 1, 2024): 8–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53765/20512201.31.1.008.

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According to an orthodox view, the capacity for conscious experience (sentience) is relevant to the distribution of moral status and value. However, physicalism about consciousness might threaten the normative relevance of sentience. According to the indeterminacy argument, sentience is metaphysically indeterminate while indeterminacy of sentience is incompatible with its normative relevance. According to the introspective argument (by François Kammerer), the unreliability of our conscious introspection undercuts the justification for belief in the normative relevance of consciousness. I defend the normative relevance of sentience against these objections. First, I demonstrate that physicalists only have to concede a limited amount of indeterminacy of sentience. This moderate indeterminacy is in harmony with the role of sentience in determining moral status. Second, I argue that physicalism gives us no reason to expect that introspection is unreliable with respect to the normative relevance of consciousness.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Indeterminacy"

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Shafer-Landau, Russell Scott. "Moral indeterminacy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185898.

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My dissertation focuses on issues of indeterminacy in ethics and the philosophy of law. My aim is to establish the existence of moral indeterminacy and to show how we can allow some degree of indeterminacy in both ethics and the law without necessarily abandoning objectivist positions that may withstand noncognitivist or legal realist criticisms. The dissertation is divided into two parts. In the first, I devote a chapter to each of three sources of moral indeterminacy. The first chapter focuses on the open texture of moral concepts. The second concentrates on value incommensurability, understood as incomparability among morally laden options. The third is devoted to what I call descriptive indeterminacy--situations where morally relevant features can be described in different, equally appropriate ways, and the moral verdict we reach will differ depending upon which description is selected. The second part of the dissertation is devoted to exploring the implications of indeterminacy for ethics and jurisprudence. Chapter Four is given over to metaethics, and is devoted to defending the compatibility of objectivism and indeterminacy. Chapter Five considers a miscellany of challenges to my conclusions in Chapter Four, and further develops the case for the compatibility of objectivism and indeterminacy. Chapter Six examines the structure of moral theories and argues that indeterminacy can be retained in either a rule-based ethic or one less sympathetic to the existence of generally-relevant moral properties. The last chapter is devoted to establishing the existence of ineliminable indeterminacy in any developed system of law.
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Ho, Cecilia Siwai. "Nexus of indeterminacy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81729.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.
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Every year, China experiences the largest human migration in history during the 40 days of Chinese New Year (Chun Yun). It is a period when migrant workers travel from coastal industrial cities to inland rural areas for family gatherings. Just in 2012, over 235 million people migrated across the country during such short extent of event. In Guangzhou, an industrial city in China, the main rail station handles passengers of 900,000 in one week. Due to the large volume of passengers and infrequent train rides under severe winter condition, these passengers are detained for as long as a week. Waiting conditions are often harsh. Large scale of human and traffic congestions are resulted and mobility within city is greatly disturbed. An expansion of rail infrastructure and station is crucial during the high travel season. At the same time, China is experiencing a transitional economy as it is entering a post-industrial development. There is a huge need for the country to initiate a new kind of economy for further growth. Rail stations are often crucial in drawing economical developments to cities. This thesis investigates the indeterminate nature of rail stations which serves as a double agent: managing the sudden flux of Chun Yun and becoming an economical development initiator in the post Chun Yun period.
by Cecilia Siwai Ho.
M.Arch.
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Dyreson, Curtis Elliott. "Valid-time indeterminacy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186920.

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In valid-time 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 extend a tuple-timestamped temporal data model to support valid-time indeterminacy and outline its implementation. This work is novel in that previous research, although quite extensive, has not studied this particular kind of incomplete information. To model the occurrence time of an event, we introduce a new data type called an indeterminate instant. Our thesis is that by representing an indeterminate instant with a set of contiguous chronons and a probability distribution over that set, it is possible to characterize a large number of (possibly weighted) alternatives, to devise intuitive query language constructs, including schema specification, temporal constants, temporal predicates and constructors, and aggregates, and to implement these constructs efficiently. We extend the TQuel and TSQL2 query languages with constructs to retrieve information in the presence of indeterminacy. Although the extended data model and query language provide needed modeling capabilities, these extensions appear to carry a significant execution cost. The cost of support for indeterminacy is empirically measured, and is shown to be modest. We then show how indeterminacy can provide a much richer modeling of granularity and now. Granularity is the unit of measure of a temporal datum (e.g., days, months, weeks). Indeterminacy and granularity are two sides of the same coin insofar as a time at a given granularity is indeterminate at all finer granularities. Now is a distinguished temporal value. We describe a new kind of instant, a now-relative indeterminate instant, which has the same storage requirements as other instants, but can be used to model situations such as that an employee is currently employed but will not work beyond the year 1995. In summary, support for indeterminacy dramatically increases the modeling capabilities of a temporal database without adversely impacting performance.
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Anderson, Scott Alan. "Legal indeterminacy in context." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1162267088.

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Emery, Nina R. (Nina Rebecca). "Chance, indeterminacy, and explanation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72921.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in Philosophy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2012.
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This thesis is about the philosophical and scientific significance of chance. Specifically, I ask whether there is a single notion of chance that both plays a well-defined scientific role and proves useful for various philosophical projects. I argue that there is, but that this notion of chance is importantly different from the one that we usually come across in the philosophical literature. In the first chapter, "Chance, Indeterminacy, and Explanation", I argue against the common and influential view that chances are those probabilities that arise when the fundamental laws are indeterministic. The problem with this view, I claim, is not that it conflicts with some antecedently plausible metaphysics of chance, but rather that it renders the distinction between chance and other sorts of probability incapable of playing any scientifically significant role. I suggest an alternative view, according to which chances are the probabilities that play a certain explanatory role-they are probabilities that explain associated frequencies. In the second chapter, "Chance, Explanation, and Measure", I build on the view that chances are the probabilities that play a certain explanatory role by developing an account of non-fundamental chances-chances that arise when the fundamental laws are deterministic. On this account, non-fundamental chances are objective measures over relevant classes of alternative possibilities. In the third chapter, "Chance and Counterfactuals", I show how the sort of chances I have argued for can play an important role in a very different sort of philosophical project. According to a number of recent arguments, one consequence of our current scientific theories is that most ordinary counterfactuals are not true. I argue that the best response to these arguments makes use of the non-fundamental chances that I have argued for in the first two chapters of the dissertation.
by Nina R. Emery.
Ph.D.in Philosophy
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GIRAUTA, BERNARDO MOUZINHO. "MUSICAL INDETERMINACY AND MUSIC-THOUGHT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34822@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O trabalho discorre acerca de algumas relações entre a música e a teoria, partindo da ideia de Indeterminação Musical proposta pelo artista norte-americano John Cage e suas consequências para a música, a linguagem, a ontologia e o pensamento de modo geral. O primeiro capítulo aborda o tema aproximando-se do conceito de indeterminação, das práticas musicais experimentais e das experiências verbais de notação musical, isto é, de partituras formadas apenas por palavras. No segundo capítulo, investiga-se a existência de certa zona de indiscernibilidade entre os escritos de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari e a música, procurando elementos de um possível pensamento-música, isto é, um modo de orientação do pensamento e de concepção ontológica nos quais a música e o som não estão submetidos a critérios filosóficos pressupostos, mas funcionam eles mesmos como material fundamental para a construção de uma filosofia.
This work discusses some relationships between music and theory, starting from the idea of Musical Indeterminacy proposed by the North American artist John Cage and its consequences for music, language, ontology and thought. The first chapter approaches the subject through the concept of indetermination itself, experimental musical practices and verbal experiences of musical notation, that is, of scores formed only by words. The second chapter discusses the existence of a certain zone of indiscernibility between the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and the music, looking for elements of a possible music-thinking, that is, a mode of thinking and an ontological conception in which music and sound are not subject to presupposed philosophical criteria, but function themselves as fundamental material for the construction of a philosophy
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Reichstein, Z., B. Youssin, and zinovy@math orst edu. "Equivariant Resolution of Points of Indeterminacy." ESI preprints, 2000. ftp://ftp.esi.ac.at/pub/Preprints/esi943.ps.

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Bueya, Emmanuel. "Stability in Africa: Indeterminacy and Credence." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104360.

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Thesis advisor: David Rasmussen
This dissertation explores the instability of the African postcolonial state and demonstrates that such a fundamental crisis can be solved only through discourses and practices that are designed beyond the Westphalian model of the modern state and the neo-patrimonialistic system of African governance. The challenge of instability will not be overcome by rebuilding the African nation-state undermined by social contradictions and complex emergencies; rather stability will be achieved by opening a public space of agonistic democracy that is supported mainly by an overlapping consensus on justice. I argue that by reading critically the African philosophy of solidarity that is contradicted by structural violence and inequality. The political instrumentalization of kinship provokes the exclusion of minorities, the marginalization of masses and the instability of the entire society. Governance is reduced to mere conflict management. The solution of legitimate violence becomes another version of the problem of institutional incapacity. My contention is that people are the ultimate and permanent agents of stability. State institutions and state sovereignty are not set in stone; they are contingent arrangements of human relations that evolve throughout history. The ground of stability must not be a strong state but the politics of reciprocity and union among people that implies a sense of justice in the power sharing and in the decision making process. The dissertation is divided in three parts. In the first two-chapter part, I present the paradox of the continent: on one side, there is an ethics of abundant life (vitalism). On the other side, there is a politics of permanent death (necropolitics). The hermeneutics of the two sides reveals that metaphysics (with its monism) and historicity (with its pluralism) intertwine in the dialectical rapport between the agent and the structure. The state is still the bull of international stability in a continent ravaged by violence and poverty. But paradoxically it does not contribute to the stability of the national society. The structure persists at the detriment of the agent. Instability endures. I analyze the various solutions offered to solve the crisis of the unstable state. Some are practical and others are theoretical but they are all state-centric: state institutions must be fixed to deliver social order. But such an order is a status quo perpetrated by a criminalized state in which agents and groups cannot cooperate fairly but only compete violently for power and security. Stability is undetermined. The second two-chapter is a search of stability for the right reasons. The main cause of instability is the absence of justice and not the failure or the collapse of the postcolonial state. Restoring stability implies promoting consensus in the decision making process and fostering an ethic of reciprocity in the power sharing. In the ubuntu ethics of reciprocity, alliance is preferred to social contract and is promoted through dialogue, fairness, and togetherness. In the ubuntu ethics of power, decisions are all made by consensus. Consensual democracy is preferred to the majoritarian democracy. It promotes participation in power and not appropriation of power. Although it is not an enduring strategy for stability, the Rawlsian model of the overlapping consensus plays a conciliatory role within different social groups with their various traditions and comprehensive doctrines. That consensus is an essentialized contingency that must be completed by the dissensus that the African palaver manage to control through a web of mediations which promote reconciliation, fairness, dialogue in the public sphere within which the protagonists are transformed. It promotes an agonistic pluralism in which adversaries are equal citizens who lives their individuality at the triple level of singularity, reciprocity, and community. Their violence and confrontation do not come first. Their mutual recognition is the originating reason of the political order and the ground for stability. Stability is determined and maintained. In the third one-chapter, I move from domestic politics to international affairs. I assert that security and stabilization of African societies come with the union of African states. Such a continental union requires from them democratic regimes and international cooperation that will promotes democratic peace, collective security, and regional integration. Instead of having fifty-four countries that are indebted and chronically underperforming, Africa can be organized into super-states that carry the panafricanist patriotism of micro-patriotisms. In its agenda for 2063, the African Union envisions a United State of Africa with one currency, one army, one government, and supranational institutions. The main challenge to such an ambitious project is the heterogeneity of the continent that an epistemology of credence can overcome: history and politics become a critical use of one's subjectivity. It implies an epistemological diversity that allows interactive intelligibility of human experiences. It does not present many alternatives but allows an alternative thinking of alternatives that make feasible the panafrican project of a united and stable Africa. The credence in African stability dwells in that realistic utopia. In the end, stability is not achieved in the re-building of the postcolonial state but in the rehabilitation of the human agent in domestic politics and in international affairs. Individual human beings, not states, are the agents who participate in defining society, state, power, and principles of justice or of sovereignty. They are the ultimate units of the national and international societies of all humankind
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
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Ternullo, Claudio. "Mathematical platonism and set-theoretic indeterminacy." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569151.

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In this work, I will be looking at the issues raised by set-theoretic indeterminacy for a Gődelian platonist, who holds that there is a universe of independently existing math- ematical objects and that there are objective unique truth-values for any set-theoretic statement. After careful consideration of the philosophical and mathematical issues involved, I claim that Gődelian platonism is untenable. In Chapter 1, I examine dif- ferent forms of mathematical platonism and I elucidate their features. In particular, I distinguish between a substantive form (Gődel's platonism) and an operational form (anti-constructivism). I also make it clear that I will be concerned with set-theoretic Gődelian platonism. In Chapter 2, I examine the indeterminacy phenomenon in set theory through a detailed analysis of the most famous open conjecture, the Continuum Hypothesis (CH). In Chapter 3, I move on to describe the main philosophical orien- tations with regard to the indeterminacy phenomenon and I show how model-theoretic relativity is the main source of trouble for platonism. In Chapter 4, I examine the the- oretical ancestry of Gődel's conceptions (which may date back to Cantor's philosophy of the infinite) and Gődel's philosophy of indeterminacy. In Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, I deal with, respectively, Maddy's set-theoretic naturalism and plenitudinous platonism (in the form presented by Balaguer, FEP), and I raise some objections against these conceptual frameworks. In Chapter 7, I propose abandoning ontological platonism and I defend a mild form of conceptual realism resting upon the notion of non-arbitrary expansions. Finally, in Chapter 8, I tackle the problem of insolubility in contempo- rary set theory and I advise that operational platonism, qua anti-constructivism, as described in Chapter 1, is the only bit of platonism which could be upheld.
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Bishop, Robert Charles. "Chaotic dynamics, indeterminacy and free will /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Books on the topic "Indeterminacy"

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Hardin, Russell. Indeterminacy and society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

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Conde, Yago. Architecture of indeterminacy. Barcelona: Actar, 2000.

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Bosi, Stefano. Money and indeterminacy. Louvain-la-Neuve: CIACO, 1998.

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Benhabib, Jess. Indeterminacy and increasing returns. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics, 1991.

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Akiba, Ken. Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74175-3.

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Weder, Mark. Business Cycle Models with Indeterminacy. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-47018-9.

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Antia, Bassey E., ed. Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.8.

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Moreso, José Juan. Legal Indeterminacy and Constitutional Interpretation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9123-2.

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McPherson, Sandra. The god of indeterminacy: Poems. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

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Bennett, Rosalind L. Indeterminacy with non-separable utility. Florence: European University Institute, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Indeterminacy"

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Solum, Lawrence B. "Indeterminacy." In A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, 479–92. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444320114.ch32.

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Cresswell, M. J. "Indexical Indeterminacy." In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 37–49. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8696-2_3.

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Baz, Avner. "Motivational Indeterminacy." In Nordic Wittgenstein Studies, 123–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38625-2_7.

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Dyreson, Curtis E. "Temporal Indeterminacy." In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1–4. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_398-2.

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Dyreson, Curtis E., and Richard T. Snodgrass. "Temporal Indeterminacy." In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language, 327–46. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2289-8_18.

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Dyreson, Curtis. "Temporal Indeterminacy." In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2973–76. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_398.

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Aarts, Bas. "Grammatical Indeterminacy." In English Syntax and Argumentation, 267–78. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06335-9_15.

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Baaquie, Belal E. "Quantum Indeterminacy." In The Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 115–43. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6224-8_7.

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Griniewicz (Grinev), Sergej. "Eliminating indeterminacy." In Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 37–47. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.8.06gri.

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Aarts, Bas. "Grammatical Indeterminacy." In English Syntax and Argumentation, 274–84. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60580-1_16.

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Conference papers on the topic "Indeterminacy"

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Sun, Hongda, Weikai Xu, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Bin Wang, Shuo Shang, Ji-Rong Wen, and Rui Yan. "DetermLR: Augmenting LLM-based Logical Reasoning from Indeterminacy to Determinacy." In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 9828–62. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.531.

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Schuster, Peter, and Daniel Wessel. "Resolving finite indeterminacy." In LICS '20: 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3373718.3394777.

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Hertzmann, Aaron. "Visual indeterminacy in GAN art." In SIGGRAPH '20: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3386567.3388574.

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Đurašinović, Radmila. "Indeterminacy as Value in Architecture." In 11th Annual Conference on Architecture and Urbanism 2022: New Research Directions in th Volatile World. Brno: VUT v Brne, Fakulta architektury, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.13164/phd.fa2022.1.

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Smolka, Pavel, and Vladimír Bradáč. "Model of search working with indeterminacy." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS 2015 (ICNAAM 2015). Author(s), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4951893.

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Foster, David E., and Gordon R. Pennock. "Graphical Methods to Locate the Secondary Instant Centers of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Indeterminate Linkages." In ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2004-57124.

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This paper presents graphical techniques to locate the unknown instantaneous centers of zero velocity of planar, single-degree-of-freedom, linkages with kinematic indeterminacy. The approach is to convert a single-degree-of-freedom indeterminate linkage into a two-degree-of-freedom linkage. Two methods are presented to perform this conversion. The first method is to remove a binary link and the second method is to replace a single link with a pair of links connected by a revolute joint. First, the paper shows that a secondary instantaneous center of a two-degree-of-freedom linkage must lie on a unique straight line. Then this property is used to locate a secondary instant center of the single-degree-of-freedom linkage at the intersection of two lines. The two lines are obtained from a purely graphical procedure. The graphical techniques presented in this paper are illustrated by three examples of single-degree-of-freedom linkages with kinematic indeterminacy. The examples are a ten-bar linkage with only revolute joints, the single flier eight-bar linkage, and a ten-bar linkage with revolute and prismatic joints.
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Chou, Aaron, R. Gustafson, C. Hogan, S. Meyer, E. Ramberg, J. Steffen, C. Stoughton, et al. "The Fermilab Holometer: A Program to Measure Planck Scale Indeterminacy." In The Fermilab Holometer: A Program to Measure Planck Scale Indeterminacy. US DOE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1969307.

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Biondini, Fabio, Dan M. Frangopol, and Stefano Restelli. "On Structural Robustness, Redundancy, and Static Indeterminacy." In Structures Congress 2008. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41016(314)237.

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Bhat, S. P., and D. S. Bernstein. "An example of indeterminacy in classical dynamics." In Proceedings of 16th American CONTROL Conference. IEEE, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acc.1997.612112.

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Williamson, Shane. "Process and Individuation: Designing for Controlled Indeterminacy." In ACADIA 2003: Connecting: Crossroads of Digital Discourse. ACADIA, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2003.029.

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Reports on the topic "Indeterminacy"

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Aguiar-Conraria, Luís, and Yi Wen. Foreign Trade and Equilibrium Indeterminacy. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/wp.2005.041.

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Farmer, Roger E. A. The Indeterminacy School in Macroeconomics. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25879.

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Acharya, Sushant, and Jess Benhabib. Global Indeterminacy in HANK Economies. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w32462.

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Gavin, William T., and Robert D. Dittmar. Inflation-Targeting, Price-Path Targeting and Indeterminacy. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/wp.2004.007.

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Wen, Yi, and Pengfei Wang. Imperfect Competition and Indeterminacy of Aggregate Output. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/wp.2006.017.

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Coury, Tarek, and Yi Wen. Global Indeterminacy in Locally Determinate RBC Models. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/wp.2007.029.

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Farmer, Roger E., Daniel Waggoner, and Tao Zha. Indeterminacy in a Forward Looking Regime Switching Model. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12540.

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Belaygorod, Anatoliy, and Michael J. Dueker. The Price Puzzle and Indeterminacy in an Estimated DSGE Model. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/wp.2006.025.

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Bianchi, Francesco, and Giovanni Nicolò. A Generalized Approach to Indeterminacy in Linear Rational Expectations Models. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w23521.

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McCallum, Bennett. Indeterminacy, Bubbles, and the Fiscal Theory of Price Level Determination. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w6456.

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