English Explanatory Dictionary

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English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A philosophical concept that refers to the universal possibility of imprecision in empirical statements.
  2. The phenomenon that legal rules are a function of language and are thus subject to attempts at definition of vague or interpretative terms.

Word forms

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Etymology

Coined by Austrian philosopher Friedrich Waismann in 1945.

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