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31Paradoxie des Haufens — Die Paradoxie des Haufens, auch Sorites Paradoxie (von griechisch sorós: Haufen), ist ein Phänomen, das bei vagen Begriffen auftritt. Die Paradoxie zeigt sich, wenn versucht wird, etwas als Haufen zu bestimmen: Es lässt sich keine konkrete, nicht …
32Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… …
33Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company — Infobox Court Case name = Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company court = Court of Appeal (Civil Division) date filed = date decided = 7 December 1892 full name = Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company citations = [1893] 1 QB 256 judges = Lindley… …
34Timothy Williamson — (born Uppsala, Sweden, 6 August 1955) is a distinguished British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.He is currently the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the… …
35Criticism of Islamism — For criticism of the religion of Islam, see Criticism of Islam. Part of the Politics series on Islamism …
36Vage — Mit Vagheit wird eine Eigenschaft von Begriffen, insbesondere von Prädikaten, bezeichnet. Ein Begriff ist vage, wenn der Begriffsumfang (die Extension) ungenau ist; wenn es Objekte gibt, von denen nicht mit Bestimmtheit gesagt werden kann, ob sie …
37uncertainty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. incertitude, doubt. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The mental state of being uncertain] Syn. perplexity, doubt, dubiety, dubiosity, skepticism, puzzlement, quandary, mystification, guesswork, conjecture,… …
38vague — [[t]ve͟ɪg[/t]] vaguer, vaguest 1) ADJ GRADED If something written or spoken is vague, it does not explain or express things clearly. A lot of the talk was apparently vague and general... The description was pretty vague. ...vague information. Ant …
39Sustainable development — is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future. The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has …
40Timothy Chambers — is a philosopher who has written a number of articles which have appeared in the journals Mind ( [http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/109/434/195 2000] , [http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/110/439/709 2001] ), the Monist (1998),… …
