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Sep 26, 2019 · Vagueness (in the sense of indeterminacy) seems to be relevant for the understanding of the sentence only when situated in the predicate term. Although vague singular terms are conceivable, I argue that their eventual indeterminacy is not relevant (truth-value emerges from predication).
- Ana Escher
- anaescher@campus.ul.pt
- 2019
Jun 29, 2011 · Overviews of the literature on vagueness are available in varying levels of detail, and with varying focuses and aims.
This chapter presents a definition of vagueness. Section 3.1 explains what the task of defining vagueness involves, and why this task is important. Section 3.2 examines and criticizes existing definitions of vagueness. Section 3.3 explains a key notion necessary for an understanding of the book's definition of vagueness.
May 7, 2021 · 2.1 What is vagueness? Vagueness is usually explained by reference to paradigmatically vague terms such as “blue”, “tall”, or “heap”. Moreover, three characteristics have been accepted in the literature as essential to vagueness.
- David Lanius
- 2021
This chapter introduces the philosophical concept of vagueness and explains its significance for contemporary philosophy. The concept is seen to give rise to two main problems: the ‘soritic problem’ of finding a solution to the paradoxes of vagueness; and the ‘semantic problem’ of finding a satisfactory semantics and logic for vague ...
Feb 8, 1997 · Where there is no perceived need for a decision, criteria are left undeveloped. Since philosophical thought experiments often involve unfamiliar cases, there is apt to be intrinsic uncertainty. W. V. O. Quine was especially suspicious of the far-out hypotheticals popular in the literature on personal identity.
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Almost all of the literature on vagueness focuses on the vagueness of predicates. Moreover, much of the literature on vague predicates has concentrated on adjectives. For much of this chapter we follow the tradition in both these respects.
