open texture is more like the possibility of vagueness; vagueness can also be remedied so that it can be made more precise, while open texture cannot. Open texture has been found in legal philosophy through the writings of H. L. A. Hart (see Hart's "The Concept of Law about Rule Skepticism" and Waismann's article "Verifiability"). According to Hart, vagueness constitutes a fundamental feature of legal languages. It is claimed, however, that Waismann's conceptualization has limited practical application, since it is more for the extraordinary, while Hart's view of open texture concerns the more mundane, approaching the term in the context of a particular norm. References 1896 births 1959 deaths Austrian Jews Jewish philosophers Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss Philosophers of language Vienna Circle Writers from Vienna Fellows of the British Academy 20th-century Austrian philosophers