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Vagueness proves to be a multi-faceted phenomenon which can be systematised along three distinctions: vagueness of individuation and classification, degree and combinatory vagueness, and semantic and pragmatic vagueness.
- Ana Escher
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
Jun 29, 2011 · Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. A detailed overview of the contemporary debate concerning the nature of vagueness. Provides illuminating summaries of many of the most important works on vagueness. Includes discussion of ontic vagueness.
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 ...
It is important to note both the vagueness of literary Impressionism and that modern novels can engage with language’s vagueness without being ‘impressionistic.’
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The aim of this section is to highlight the main questions which any theory of vagueness will ultimately have to address. Indications of vagueness. 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.
