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January 16

Task of being vague

Roughly a decade ago, I put the following tangential query in response to someone else's question.

There's a quote I've seen several times that goes something like the principal dispute between the so-called analytic and continental traditions in philosophy is whether the task of being vague is to be accomplished in natural language or in a formal system. I can't find the exact quote right now — can anyone help?

At the time, no one did help, but the question was not directly on-point in that discussion. So now I'm asking directly. Does anyone recognize this quote or know where it comes from? --Trovatore (talk) 00:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

This is not quite the same, but this excerpt from David Gorman in Diacritics (1983) is similar in some respects:

The larger gap is the one that has divided so-called "analytic" philosophy, logical and empiricist in spirit, from "continental," speculative philosophy; this division seems virtually irrevocable, the two sides sharing little but mutual contempt and incomprehension. The smaller gap, which is Dummett's more immediate concern in this passage, is one that opened within the analytic tradition. On one side was what might be called the main line of its development-associated here with Rudolf Carnap's name-which goes back through logical positivism to the early work of Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein's Tractatus. On the other side was "ordinary language" philosophy, which had its center at the Oxford of Gilbert Ryle and J. L. Austin, and was deeply influenced by ideas from the (then unpublished) later work of Wittgenstein, which percolated through from Cambridge.

— David Gorman, "Discovery and Recovery in the Philosophy of Language: Dummett and Frege", Diacritics, vol. 13, no. 4, 10.2307/464711; p. 43. (1983)

Hope that helps. Mathglot (talk) 11:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, but no, I was looking specifically for a quote about how to achieve vagueness. --Trovatore (talk) 17:20, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

G rating in 2004-and-later movies

What kind of movie of the 2004-and-later era gets the G rating for the most part?? I remember hearing an Internet site saying that in this modern era only movies about mother-daughter relationships get this rating; another claims that movies about nature do. Any experience anyone has with G-rated movies of this era?? Georgia guy (talk) 00:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

For information: G rating is "General Audience", ie suitable for everyone. See Motion picture content rating system#United States. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 09:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

The following are all rated G (so don't believe everything you read on the internet):

Cars (2006)

Charlotte's Web (2006)

Ratatouille (2007)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

WALL-E (2008) Clarityfiend (talk) 09:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

… so the answer to the question is "mostly Pixar"? —Tamfang (talk) 19:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I just picked the highest-rated recent movies that I'm familiar with in IMDb's list, so people could judge whether or not they fit Georgia guy's criteria. How many would know immediately if Ponyo fits the bill? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:13, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Vacancies in the Israeli parliament

Elections in Israel doesn't answer my question, and nor does this page from the country's Central Elections Committee.

You are a member of the Knesset. You die, resign, or otherwise leave the Knesset midway through its term. Does your seat get filled, and if so, how? I suppose it could be taken by the person on your party's list who would have been seated had your party gotten one more seat in the last election (e.g. if your party got twelve seats, you're replaced by the thirteenth person on the list), or maybe your party's leadership can pick anyone they want to take your spot, or maybe your seat is just left vacant. Since Israel doesn't have electoral divisions, I can't imagine a by-election being possible. Nyttend (talk) 01:27, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

I can find that both Lior Edri and Michael Malchieli, while originally too low on the list of their party (Shas) to be elected, filled the vacant seat upon the resignation of a sitting member (in either case Aryeh Deri, one in 2015 and the other in 2016), apparently without a special procedure. The only reasonable formal rule is that the seat is taken by the next available person on the list, since the original party may have imploded or split since the election. Of course, a party's leadership can exert pressure on eligible candidates to decline to take the position so that a favoured candidate can fill the seat.  --Lambiam 04:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

"Vacancies arising between general elections are filled by the 'next-in-line' candidate of the party list concerned", according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.[1] Clarityfiend (talk) 01:52, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

European Prize for Literature

The European Prize for Literature seems not to have been awarded since 2016. The website given in the External Links section of the article is a deadlink. Does this prize still in fact exist? If not, why did it cease? --Viennese Waltz 09:50, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Some news about the 'last' award in the Estonian Literary Magazine. Perhaps it overlapped too much with the European Union Prize for Literature? -- Verbarson  ^talk_edits 11:26, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Marquis de Launay (1740-1789)

During the Restoration, was he post-mortem awarded for his death at the Bastille storming? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.130.195 (talk) 16:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Awarded what? Clarityfiend (talk) 01:55, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

A military promotion or a medail to postmostly honor his heroic death against the revolution. 193.207.145.79 (talk) 07:03, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Have you search it? I'm waiting an answer from you. 87.2.59.82 (talk) 11:19, 18 January 2024 (UTC)