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The virtue of vagueness, Nature
 









Excerpt:         “In research the front line is almost always in a fog,”
Crick wrote in his autobiography. Even today there is no consensus definition of
the gene.  In Not Exactly, a wide-ranging study of vagueness, computer scientist
Kees van Deemter argues that precise definitions may not be meaningful or
logical. Through his research background in artificial intelligence �" he
worked on the TENDUM question-answering machine developed at Philips Electronics
in the 1980s �" he knows how difficult it is to program computers to speak and
write like humans. In the book, he brings a mix of logical, linguistic and
philosophical perspectives to the topic of vagueness.
Source: The virtue of vagueness[ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/463736a ], Andrew
Robinson, DOI: 10.1038/463736a, Nature 463, 736, 2010/02/10

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