Appropriateness measures: an uncertainty model for vague concepts

DOI10.1007/s11229-007-9158-9zbMath1140.68066OpenAlexW2078352937MaRDI QIDQ928740

Jonathan Lawry

Publication date: 11 June 2008

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9158-9

zbMATH Keywords

AppropriatenessAssertabilityEpistemic stance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knowledge representation (68T30) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

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