Journal articles: '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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Stoyanov, Jordan M., Aldo Tagliani, and Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi. "Maximum Entropy Criterion for Moment Indeterminacy of Probability Densities." Entropy 26, no. 2 (January 30, 2024): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e26020121.

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We deal with absolutely continuous probability distributions with finite all-positive integer-order moments. It is well known that any such distribution is either uniquely determined by its moments (M-determinate), or it is non-unique (M-indeterminate). In this paper, we follow the maximum entropy approach and establish a new criterion for the M-indeterminacy of distributions on the positive half-line (Stieltjes case). Useful corollaries are derived for M-indeterminate distributions on the whole real line (Hamburger case). We show how the maximum entropy is related to the symmetry property and the M-indeterminacy.

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Bĕlohrad, Radim. "The Determinable-Based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vague Identity." KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy 34, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/krt-2020-340303.

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Abstract This paper focuses on Jessica Wilson's determinable-based account of metaphysical indeterminacy and its relationship to the concept of vague identity. The determinable-based account comprises a distinction between meta-level and object-level accounts of metaphysical indeterminacy. I first argue that the distinction cannot be clearly applied to some theories. In particular, I argue that even though Wilson categorizes the constitution account of metaphysical indeterminacy as a meta-level account, from one perspective it can be defensibly regarded as an object-level account, because it is bound to posit genuinely indeterminate states of affairs and provides an explanation of boundary indeterminacy that is structurally analogous to the explanation provided by Wilson's object-level account. This interim conclusion is important, because it has been argued that the constitution account, when applied to some more complex types of boundary indeterminacy, cannot avoid commitment to vague identity, in spite of the declarations of some of its proponents. The ultimate goal of this paper is to argue that, contrary to Wilson's claims, the determinable-based account must embrace vague identity too.

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Papayannopoulos, Philippos, Nir Fresco, and Oron Shagrir. "On Two Different Kinds of Computational Indeterminacy." Monist 105, no. 2 (March 9, 2022): 229–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/monist/onab033.

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Abstract It is often indeterminate what function a given computational system computes. This phenomenon has been referred to as “computational indeterminacy” or “multiplicity of computations.” In this paper, we argue that what has typically been considered and referred to as the (unique) challenge of computational indeterminacy in fact subsumes two distinct phenomena, which are typically bundled together and should be teased apart. One kind of indeterminacy concerns a functional (or formal) characterization of the system’s relevant behavior (briefly: how its physical states are grouped together and corresponded to abstract states). Another kind concerns the manner in which the abstract (or computational) states are interpreted (briefly: what function the system computes). We discuss the similarities and differences between the two kinds of computational indeterminacy, their implications for certain accounts of “computational individuation” in the literature, and their relevance to different levels of description within the computational system. We also examine the inter-relationships between our proposed accounts of the two kinds of indeterminacy and the main accounts of “computational implementation.”

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Kandasamy, Ilanthenral, and Florentin Smarandache. "Multicriteria Decision Making Using Double Refined Indeterminacy Neutrosophic Cross Entropy and Indeterminacy Based Cross Entropy." Applied Mechanics and Materials 859 (December 2016): 129–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.859.129.

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Double Refined Indeterminacy Neutrosophic Set (DRINS) is an inclusive case of the refined neutrosophic set, defined by Smarandache (2013), which provides the additional possibility to represent with sensitivity and accuracy the uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, and inconsistent information which are available in real world. More precision is provided in handling indeterminacy; by classifying indeterminacy (I) into two, based on membership; as indeterminacy leaning towards truth membership (IT) and indeterminacy leaning towards false membership (IF). This kind of classification of indeterminacy is not feasible with the existing Single Valued Neutrosophic Set (SVNS), but it is a particular case of the refined neutrosophic set (where each T, I, F can be refined into T1, T2, ...; I1, I2, ...; F1, F2, ...). DRINS is better equipped at dealing indeterminate and inconsistent information, with more accuracy than SVNS, which fuzzy sets and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFS) are incapable of. Based on the cross entropy of neutrosophic sets, the cross entropy of DRINSs, known as Double Refined Indeterminacy neutrosophic cross entropy, is proposed in this paper. This proposed cross entropy is used for a multicriteria decision-making problem, where the criteria values for alternatives are considered under a DRINS environment. Similarly, an indeterminacy based cross entropy using DRINS is also proposed. The double valued neutrosophic weighted cross entropy and indeterminacy based cross entropy between the ideal alternative and an alternative is obtained and utilized to rank the alternatives corresponding to the cross entropy values. The most desirable one(s) in decision making process is selected. An illustrative example is provided to demonstrate the application of the proposed method. A brief comparison of the proposed method with the existing methods is carried out.

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Vogt, Katja Maria. "No More This than That." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 (2021): 57–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/msp202111416.

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In the terms of ancient epistemology, Pyrrho is a dogmatist, not a skeptic, simply on account of putting forward a metaphysical theory. His most contested claim is that things are indifferent, unmeasured, and indeterminate—or, on a competing reconstruction, that things are indifferentiable, unmeasurable, and indeterminable. This paper argues that Pyrrho’s position, which I call Pyrrhonian Indeterminacy, belongs to a rich tradition of revisionist metaphysics that includes ancient atomism, flux metaphysics, Plato’s analysis of becoming, and today’s discussions of indeterminacy and vagueness. This tradition, my argument continues, makes room for a kind of metaphysics that proceeds in epistemological terms. Pyrrho’s indeterminacy claim says that things are indeterminate insofar as they do not have features by reference to which we can determine them to be such-and-such. We should not waver or be inclined to see things one way or another—we should see things, and describe them, as “no more this than that.”

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Photphisutthiphong, Nopphawan, and Mark Weder. "CAPITAL–LABOR SUBSTITUTION, SECTOR-SPECIFIC EXTERNALITIES, AND INDETERMINACY." Macroeconomic Dynamics 16, S3 (August 22, 2012): 411–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1365100510000994.

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This paper examines the effect of the elasticity of technological substitution on the existence of equilibrium indeterminacy in two-sector economies. Following recent empirical evidence, the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is below unity and we find that this requires a higher degree of productive externalities in order to still be able to produce indeterminate equilibria. However, empirically realistic rates of substitution do not rule out indeterminacy.

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Allen, Sophie R. "Can Theoretical Underdetermination support the Indeterminacy of Translation? Revisiting Quine's ‘Real Ground’." Philosophy 85, no. 1 (January 2010): 67–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819109990441.

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AbstractIt is commonly believed that Quine's principal argument for the Indeterminacy of Translation requires an untenably strong account of the underdetermination of theories by evidence, namely that that two theories may be compatible with all possible evidence for them and yet incompatible with each other. In this article, I argue that Quine's conclusion that translation is indeterminate can be based upon the weaker, uncontroversial conception of theoretical underdetermination, in conjunction with a weak reading of the ‘Gavagai’ argument which establishes the underdetermination of the sense and reference of subsentential terms. If underdetermination is considered to be a widespread phenomenon in science, or in inductive reasoning more generally, then the Indeterminacy of Translation will be widespread too. Finally, I briefly consider two issues concerning the scope of this conclusion about the Indeterminacy of Translation: first, whether the argument presupposes behaviourism; and second, whether indeterminacy is restricted to the case of radical translation. I argue that the answer to both these questions is negative, and thus that the thesis of semantic indeterminacy remains relevant to those who disagree with Quine about some issues concerning the nature of mind and language.

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Eklund, Matti. "Deconstructing Ontological Vagueness." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 38, no. 1 (March 2008): 117–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.0.0006.

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I will here present a number of problems concerning the idea that there is ontological vagueness, and the related claim that appeal to this idea can help solve some vagueness-related problems. A theme underlying the discussion will be the distinction between vagueness specifically and indeterminacy more generally (and, relatedly, the distinction between ontological vagueness and ontological indeterminacy). Even if the world is somehow ontologically indeterminate it by no means follows that it is, properly speaking, ontologically vague.

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Dvořák, Petr. "Neurčitá Identita v Kvantové Oblasti a Strukturní Realismus." Studia Neoaristotelica 16, no. 3 (2019): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20191635.

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The paper deals with the problem whether there can exist indeterminate identity. If one accepts Evans’s argument, then statements about indeterminate identity can be true, but only those, in which at least one of the singular terms does not refer determinately. One does not have to explain all vagueness as semantic, i.e. as indeterminacy of meaning, because some such statements can be true on account of indeterminacy of reality. This can be shown in the particular quantum case introduced by Lowe concerning the identity of an absorbed and emitted electron. The singular terms within the identity statements in this example are to be understood in the way pointed out by Abasnezhad and in the manner Barnes and Williams take names in statements of identity between Kilimanjaro and one of the precise aggregates of particles of which the mountain consists: One of the names refers indeterminately. This indeterminacy is of the kind belonging to indefinite descriptions. The issue of individuality on quantum level can be understood using resources of structural realism of James Ladyman.

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Tam, Theodore Tsz Hang. "Wolfgang Iser’s conception of indeterminacy: An integrational critique." Journal of Literary Semantics 48, no. 2 (October 25, 2019): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2019-2012.

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Abstract Adopting the perspective of a “Harrisian” integrational linguist, this article identifies two conflicting ways in which Wolfgang Iser describes “indeterminacy” and its implications on the act of reading in his “reception theory”. It will be argued that while his understanding of contextualisation and recontextualisation is markedly similar to the integrational idea of the radical indeterminacy of the sign, he is not an “integrational literary theorist” since he ultimately sees literary works as comprising determinate, intersubjective segments and indeterminate links supplied by the reader. Iser’s significance for integrationism lies mainly in the directions he provides for the development of “integrational literary criticism”, the practitioners of which would be “cultured readers” who appreciate the impossibility of “correct” analyses and recognise indeterminacy as an integral part of the reading process.

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Mannoni, Michele. "On the Forms and Thorns of Linguistic Indeterminacy in Chinese Law." Comparative Legilinguistics 45, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 61–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/cl-2021-0004.

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Abstract This study addresses the different types and implications of linguistic indeterminacy in Chinese law. It firstly draws on the studies of scholars of different disciplines, such as linguistics and philosophy of language, to provide a taxonomy of indeterminacy in language. It then provides examples of each type, highlighting the implications in law and legal interpretation. It uses linguistic data from various texts, such as statutory laws and judgements, and analyses them with various methods, including discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. This study argues that when the language of the law is indeterminate, the legal outcomes may be particularly uncertain. It suggests that although it is difficult to ascertain whether the degree of indeterminacy is higher in some languages more than in others, some linguistic mechanisms at the word-formation level in Chinese, such as portmanteaus and the modifier-modified structure, are remarkably ambiguous. When uncertain terms are in key parts of the law, the consequences may be more serious. The study of linguistic indeterminacy in Chinese has implications for the study of forensic linguistics, and Chinese studies in general.

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Bianchi, Francesco, and Giovanni Nicolò. "A generalized approach to indeterminacy in linear rational expectations models." Quantitative Economics 12, no. 3 (2021): 843–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/qe949.

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We propose a novel approach to deal with the problem of indeterminacy in linear rational expectations models. The method consists of augmenting the original state space with a set of auxiliary exogenous equations to provide the adequate number of explosive roots in presence of indeterminacy. The solution in this expanded state space, if it exists, is always determinate, and is identical to the indeterminate solution of the original model. The proposed approach accommodates determinacy and any degree of indeterminacy, and it can be implemented even when the boundaries of the determinacy region are unknown. Thus, the researcher can estimate the model using standard software packages without restricting the estimates to the determinacy region. We combine our solution method with a novel hybrid Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to estimate the New–Keynesian model with rational bubbles by Galí (2021) over the period 1982:Q4–2007:Q3. We find that the data support the presence of two degrees of indeterminacy, implying that the central bank was not reacting strongly enough to the bubble component.

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Kandasamy, Ilanthenral. "Double-Valued Neutrosophic Sets, their Minimum Spanning Trees, and Clustering Algorithm." Journal of Intelligent Systems 27, no. 2 (March 28, 2018): 163–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2016-0088.

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AbstractNeutrosophy (neutrosophic logic) is used to represent uncertain, indeterminate, and inconsistent information available in the real world. This article proposes a method to provide more sensitivity and precision to indeterminacy, by classifying the indeterminate concept/value into two based on membership: one as indeterminacy leaning towards truth membership and the other as indeterminacy leaning towards false membership. This paper introduces a modified form of a neutrosophic set, called Double-Valued Neutrosophic Set (DVNS), which has these two distinct indeterminate values. Its related properties and axioms are defined and illustrated in this paper. An important role is played by clustering in several fields of research in the form of data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning. DVNS is better equipped at dealing with indeterminate and inconsistent information, with more accuracy, than the Single-Valued Neutrosophic Set, which fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets are incapable of. A generalised distance measure between DVNSs and the related distance matrix is defined, based on which a clustering algorithm is constructed. This article proposes a Double-Valued Neutrosophic Minimum Spanning Tree (DVN-MST) clustering algorithm, to cluster the data represented by double-valued neutrosophic information. Illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the applications and effectiveness of this clustering algorithm. A comparative study of the DVN-MST clustering algorithm with other clustering algorithms like Single-Valued Neutrosophic Minimum Spanning Tree, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Minimum Spanning Tree, and Fuzzy Minimum Spanning Tree is carried out.

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GUSTAFSSON, JOHAN E. "Indeterminacy and the Small-Improvement Argument." Utilitas 25, no. 4 (July 22, 2013): 433–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820813000034.

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In this article, I argue that the small-improvement fails since some of the comparisons involved in the argument might be indeterminate. I defend this view from two objections by Ruth Chang, namely the argument from phenomenology and the argument from perplexity. There are some other objections to the small-improvement argument that also hinge on claims about indeterminacy. John Broome argues that alleged cases of value incomparability are merely examples of indeterminacy in the betterness relation. The main premise of his argument is the much-discussed collapsing principle. I offer a new counterexample to this principle and argue that Broome's defence of the principle is not cogent. On the other hand, Nicolas Espinoza argues that the small-improvement argument fails as a result of the mere possibility of evaluative indeterminacy. I argue that his objection is unsuccessful.

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Hirose, Yasuo. "MONETARY POLICY AND SUNSPOT FLUCTUATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EURO AREA." Macroeconomic Dynamics 17, no. 1 (May 25, 2012): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1365100510001008.

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We estimate a two-country open economy version of the New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for the United States and the Euro area, using Bayesian techniques that allow for both determinacy and indeterminacy of the equilibrium. Empirical analysis shows that the worldwide equilibrium is indeterminate due to a passive monetary policy in the Euro area, even if U.S. policy is aggressive enough. We demonstrate that the impulse responses under indeterminacy exhibit dynamics different from those under determinacy and that sunspot shocks affect the Euro economy to a substantial degree, whereas the transmission of sunspots to the United States is limited.

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George, Alexander. "Quine’s Indeterminacy." Harvard Review of Philosophy 21 (2014): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview2014214.

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Green, J. Ronald. "Maximizing Indeterminacy." Afterimage 27, no. 6 (May 2000): 8–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aft.2000.27.6.8.

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Schroeder, Franziska, and Iain Campbell. "Improvisation/Indeterminacy." Contemporary Music Review 40, no. 4 (July 4, 2021): 359–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.2001934.

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Kress, Ken. "Legal Indeterminacy." California Law Review 77, no. 2 (March 1989): 283. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3480606.

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Baz, Avner. "Motivational Indeterminacy." European Journal of Philosophy 25, no. 2 (October 11, 2016): 336–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12163.

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GREENLEAF, CYNTHIA. "Technological Indeterminacy." Written Communication 11, no. 1 (January 1994): 85–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088394011001005.

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Barnes, Elizabeth. "Fundamental Indeterminacy." Analytic Philosophy 55, no. 4 (December 2014): 339–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phib.12049.

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Torza, Alessandro. "Structural Indeterminacy." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 101, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 365–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12588.

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Leiter, Brian. "Legal Indeterminacy." Legal Theory 1, no. 4 (December 1995): 481–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352325200000227.

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To say that the law is indeterminate is to say that the class of legal reasons (hereafter “the Class”) is indeterminate. The Class, in turn, consists of four components:1. Legitimate sources of law (e.g., statutes, constitutions, court decisions, social policy, morality);2. Legitimate interpretive operations that can be performed on the sources in order to generate rules of law (e.g., proper methods of interpreting statutes or prior cases or of reasoning about moral concepts as these figure in the sources);3. Legitimate interpretive operations that can be performed on the facts of record in order to generate facts of legal significance (e.g., proper ways of grouping and categorizing fact situations for purposes of legal analysis); and4. Legitimate rational operations that can be performed on facts and rules of law to finally yield particular decisions (e.g., deductive reasoning).

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CORLETT, WILLIAM. "Containing Indeterminacy." Political Theory 24, no. 3 (August 1996): 464–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591796024003008.

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Slifkin, R. "Against Indeterminacy." Oxford Art Journal 32, no. 3 (October 1, 2009): 458–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcp039.

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Kalai, Gil. "Social Indeterminacy." Econometrica 72, no. 5 (September 2004): 1565–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00543.x.

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Greenspan, Ralph J. "Biological Indeterminacy." Science and Engineering Ethics 18, no. 3 (July 3, 2012): 447–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9379-2.

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Ruzzene, Fosco. "Position Indeterminacy." Australian Journal of Physics 53, no. 5 (2000): 631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ph99076.

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Calculations assuming position indeterminacy in the Dirac equation are reported.Energy shift contributions for low-lying states of hydrogen-like atoms are calculated by treating the position indeterminacy as a perturbation additional to standard quantum mechanics. The results are consistent with the current discrepancy between theory and experiment for Lamb shifts in hydrogen, deuterium and the helium ion.

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MacFarlane, John. "Indeterminacy as Indecision, Lecture III: Indeterminacy as Indecision." Journal of Philosophy 117, no. 11 (2020): 643–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil202011711/1242.

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This lecture presents my own solution to the problem posed in Lecture I. Instead of a new theory of speech acts, it offers a new theory of the contents expressed by vague assertions, along the lines of the plan expressivism Allan Gibbard has advocated for normative language. On this view, the mental states we express in uttering vague sentences have a dual direction of fit: they jointly constrain the doxastic possibilities we recognize and our practical plans about how to draw boundaries. With this story in hand, I reconsider some of the traditional topics connected with vagueness: bivalence, the sorites paradox, higher-order vagueness, and the nature of vague thought. I conclude by arguing that the expressivist account can explain, as its rivals cannot, what makes vague language useful.

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White, Jonathan. "Responding to Norm Indeterminacy outside the Nation-State Frame." Comparative Sociology 9, no. 5 (2010): 611–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156913210x12548913482393.

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AbstractI examine responses to norm indeterminacy in the transnational context, focusing on regional integration in post-War Europe. I argue that the development of the European Union has been facilitated by the use of a legitimizing device whereby policy decisions at a European level are cast as beyond the scope of reasonable political disagreement and therefore distinct from the conditions which make democracy a desirable political form at the national level. This rejection of the political significance of norm indeterminacy has led to a widely diagnosed trend of “depoliticization” in European politics. The paper examines how best to understand this trend, and explores how an adapted account of “enlightened localism” might offer better ways of coping with indeterminate norms.

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MacIntosh, Duncan. "Modality, Mechanism and Translational Indeterminacy." Dialogue 28, no. 3 (1989): 391–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300015924.

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How does Quine argue to the indeterminacy of translation? It has always been hard to tell, but one construction goes like this: A fact is determinate only if it is empirically determinable, for empirical evidence under-determines truth about the trans-empirical; theory is underdetermined by data. Therefore, facts about the unobservable, facts of theory, are indeterminate. A fact about the meaning of a person's sentence is only determinate if it is empirically determinable. The meaning of a person's sentence is empirically determinable only if it is empirically determinable under what conditions he assents to it. The meaning of a person's sentence about something unobservable is determinable only if it is determinable what unobservable events are occurring whenever he assents to a sentence supposedly about the unobservable. It is not empirically determinable what is going on in the unobservable realm whenever someone assents to a sentence supposedly about the unobservable. Therefore it is undeterminable what a person's theory sentence means. Therefore what it means is indeterminate.

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Botting, David. "The Twofold Indeterminacy of Intention." KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy 1, no. 26 (January 1, 2012): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/krt-2012-012605.

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Abstract In this paper I hope to answer the questions "How do we make something an intentional object?" and "What kinds of things can be intentional objects?" My response will be a direct reference theory following Chisholm. Such a theory has as a consequence, I will argue, different types of indeterminacy in our attitudes. This is due to Chisholm's concept of conceptual entailment. I hold that if the self-ascribed attribute conceptually entails another which gives a different intentional object, then the attitude is indeterminate as to which is the actual object or objects, although all such objects are 'purported' to be such.

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Aslam, Muhammad, and Muhammad Saleem. "Neutrosophic test of linearity with application." AIMS Mathematics 8, no. 4 (2023): 7981–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/math.2023402.

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<abstract> <p>The existing F-test of linearity cannot be applied when data has indeterminacy and uncertainty. The present paper introduces the F-test of testing linearity under neutrosophic statistics. We will develop F-test under neutrosophic statistics and neutrosophic analysis of the variance (NANOVA) table. The application of the proposed test will be given using the data of dry bulb temperature and relative humidity. From the analysis and comparison studies, it is found that the proposed F-test under neutrosophic statistics gives the results in indeterminate intervals and measures of indeterminacy. In addition, the proposed test is more flexible, adequate, and more informative than the F-test under classical statistics.</p> </abstract>

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Yoon, Young Joo, and Kyupil Yeon. "Extraction of factor scores reflecting factor indeterminacy and application to factor score regression model." Korean Data Analysis Society 25, no. 6 (December 31, 2023): 2121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.37727/jkdas.2023.25.6.2121.

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Factor analysis is a multivariate analysis method widely used to extract latent factors from high dimensional data and interpret multidimensional data through dimension reduction. Additionally, factor scores of individual observations for the extracted factors are calculated and used in a subsequent regression analysis. This factor model has the characteristics of parameter indeterminacy which means parameters such as the factor loading matrix or unique variance are not uniquely determined, and factor indeterminacy which represents that latent factors are not uniquely determined even in situations where the parameters of the factor model are determined. In this paper, we examine the indeterminacy of factor scores and propose a new method of calculating factor scores that maximize the correlation coefficient between a response variable and a factor in a factor score regression model. Simulations and real data analysis were conducted to compare the existing factor scores using the regression method and the proposed factor scores utilizing the indeterminate part of factors in factor score regression setting. As a result of data analysis, it was confirmed that the estimation accuracy of regression model was higher when using the proposed factor scores.

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DeivanayagamPillai, Nagarajan, and Said Broumi. "Neutrosophic Logic Applications in Intelligent Control Systems and its Stability." HyperSoft Set Methods in Engineering 2 (August 1, 2024): 104–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.61356/j.hsse.2024.2348.

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Uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of actual control systems since their parameters are not fixed and may change based on external factors. The behaviour and performance of control systems can be strongly impacted by these unknown characteristics. Variability in the environment, ageing of core components, and manufacturing tolerances are some of the factors that contribute to this uncertainty and pose an unknown risk to control systems. As a result, real control systems' intrinsic parameter indeterminacy may have an impact on how well they operate. Real-life scenarios are often ambiguous and complex, posing challenges for decision-makers to articulate their opinions. Neutrosophic sets are employed in such contexts to handle indeterminacy effectively. Neutrosophic theory suggests a variable interval based on truth, indeterminacy, and falsity, allowing for the expression of both determinate and indeterminate information. Nevertheless, neutrosophic sets have not yet been used in the modelling, analysis, and design of uncertain control systems with determinate parameters. To close this gap, a new neutrosophic design technique is established in this study by introducing single-valued neutrosophic systems. The suggested control design method is illustrated with a numerical example employing neutrosophic parameters.

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du Plessis, Quentin. "Sources of legal indeterminacy." South African Law Journal 138, no. 1 (2021): 115–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/salj/v138/i1a6.

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Traditional analyses characterise or identify vagueness and ambiguity as the sole or primary sources of legal indeterminacy. In this article, I identify and characterise various other sources of legal indeterminacy. In addition to the semantic indeterminacy of vagueness and ambiguity, philosophers of language have identified conversational, pragmatic, and contextual indeterminacy, each of which is capable of generating a ‘hard case’ as applied to the legal sphere. Nor is all legal indeterminacy linguistic in nature. Following Henry Prakken, I identify non-monotonicity, or the fact that legal inferences are defeasible, as a final source of legal indeterminacy. Each source of legal indeterminacy thus identified includes case-law examples to aid in the discussion.

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Mariani, Cristian. "Emergent quantum indeterminacy." Ratio 34, no. 3 (March 20, 2021): 183–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rati.12305.

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Stone, Peter. "Varieties of Indeterminacy." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review 6, no. 7 (2012): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v06i07/52120.

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Grange, Joseph. "Indeterminacy and Intelligibility." International Philosophical Quarterly 34, no. 2 (1994): 259–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq199434212.

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