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Intro; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; References; Vagueness in Rational Choice; Vagueness and Imprecise Credence; 1 Introduction; 2 Nihilism; 3 Vagueness; 4 Supervaluationism; 5 Imprecise Probabilism; 6 Complex Claims; 7 Decision Theory; 8 Higher-Order Vagueness; 9 Conclusion; References; Problems of Precision in Fuzzy Theories of Vagueness and Bayesian Epistemology; 1 Introduction; 2 Fuzzy Theories of Vagueness; 3 Bayesian Epistemology; 4 Two Aspects of Thinking Agents; 5 A Dispositional Argument Against Bayesianism?; 6 Arguments in the Literature; 7 Conclusion; References
Regret, Sub-optimality, and VaguenessReferences; Rationality in Vague Language Use and Cognition; The Elusive Benefits of Vagueness: Evidence from Experiments; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 Our Approach to the Problem; 4 Experiment 1: Separating Vagueness from Instruction Format; 4.1 Hypotheses (Experiment 1); 4.2 Results (Experiment 1); 4.3 Discussion (Experiment 1); 5 Experiment 2: Focus on Instructions that Contain Numerals; 5.1 Hypotheses (Experiment 2); 5.2 Results (Experiment 2); 5.3 Discussion (Experiment 2); 6 Experiment 3: Focus on Instructions that Do Not Contain Numerals
6.1 Hypotheses (Experiment 3)6.2 Results (Experiment 3); 6.3 Discussion (Experiment 3); 7 Discussion of Experiments 2 and 3; 8 General Discussion; References; Towards an Ecology of Vagueness; 1 Vagueness and Rationality; 2 Signaling Games; 3 Vagueness in Sim-Max Games; 4 The Ecology of Vagueness; 5 Two Multi-population Models of Imprecise Imitation; 5.1 Tight Population Interaction; 5.2 Loose Population Interaction; 6 Conclusions; References; The Rationality of Vagueness; 1 Introduction; 2 The Conceptual Spaces Framework; 3 Conceptual Spaces and Vagueness; 4 Naturalness and Design
5 Rationality and VaguenessReferences; Semantic Indecision; 1 Limitations on Collective Choice; 2 Choice Theory for Adjectival Semantics; 3 Multidimensional Adjectives as Collective Choice Functions; 4 Some Vagueness Effects May Follow from Limitations on Collective Choice; References; Grounding a Pragmatic Theory of Vagueness on Experimental Data: Semi-orders and Weber's Law; 1 Introduction; 2 Experimental Evidence; 2.1 Experiment 1; 2.2 Experiment 2; 2.3 Interpretation of the Experimental Data; 3 Modeling by Semi-orders and Challenges
3.1 Semi-orders and Indirect Versus Direct Comparisons3.2 Challenges for the Semi-Order Approach; 4 Answering the Challenges; 4.1 Revisiting the Gap Hypothesis; 4.2 Meeting Fults' Objections; 4.3 The Interpretation of the Threshold; 5 Conclusion; References
Regret, Sub-optimality, and VaguenessReferences; Rationality in Vague Language Use and Cognition; The Elusive Benefits of Vagueness: Evidence from Experiments; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 Our Approach to the Problem; 4 Experiment 1: Separating Vagueness from Instruction Format; 4.1 Hypotheses (Experiment 1); 4.2 Results (Experiment 1); 4.3 Discussion (Experiment 1); 5 Experiment 2: Focus on Instructions that Contain Numerals; 5.1 Hypotheses (Experiment 2); 5.2 Results (Experiment 2); 5.3 Discussion (Experiment 2); 6 Experiment 3: Focus on Instructions that Do Not Contain Numerals
6.1 Hypotheses (Experiment 3)6.2 Results (Experiment 3); 6.3 Discussion (Experiment 3); 7 Discussion of Experiments 2 and 3; 8 General Discussion; References; Towards an Ecology of Vagueness; 1 Vagueness and Rationality; 2 Signaling Games; 3 Vagueness in Sim-Max Games; 4 The Ecology of Vagueness; 5 Two Multi-population Models of Imprecise Imitation; 5.1 Tight Population Interaction; 5.2 Loose Population Interaction; 6 Conclusions; References; The Rationality of Vagueness; 1 Introduction; 2 The Conceptual Spaces Framework; 3 Conceptual Spaces and Vagueness; 4 Naturalness and Design
5 Rationality and VaguenessReferences; Semantic Indecision; 1 Limitations on Collective Choice; 2 Choice Theory for Adjectival Semantics; 3 Multidimensional Adjectives as Collective Choice Functions; 4 Some Vagueness Effects May Follow from Limitations on Collective Choice; References; Grounding a Pragmatic Theory of Vagueness on Experimental Data: Semi-orders and Weber's Law; 1 Introduction; 2 Experimental Evidence; 2.1 Experiment 1; 2.2 Experiment 2; 2.3 Interpretation of the Experimental Data; 3 Modeling by Semi-orders and Challenges
3.1 Semi-orders and Indirect Versus Direct Comparisons3.2 Challenges for the Semi-Order Approach; 4 Answering the Challenges; 4.1 Revisiting the Gap Hypothesis; 4.2 Meeting Fults' Objections; 4.3 The Interpretation of the Threshold; 5 Conclusion; References