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1. plato.stanford.edu › sum2020 › entriesVagueness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Feb 8, 1997 · But then the vagueness is due to language, not the world. Despite Evans’ impressive assault, there was a renewal of interest in vague objects in the 1980s. As a precedent for this revival, Peter van Inwagen (1990, 283) recalls that in the 1960s, there was a consensus that all necessity is linguistic.

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   The author expresses frustration at this issue of metaphysical vagueness, rather than adjudicating it one way or the other. Vagueness is seen as a linguistic phenomenon due to kinds of languages that humans speak. But vagueness is also due to the world we find ourselves in, as we try to communicate features of it to each other. Vagueness is ...

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4. philosophynow.org › issues › 25Vagueness: an introduction (sort of) | Issue 25 - Philosophy Now

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   1. A person with £5,000,000,000 is rich. 2. Someone does not go from being rich to being not rich by losing £1. 3. Therefore, someone with £4,999,999,999 is rich. (C) Therefore, someone with £6 is rich. Of course, we can reverse the process and generate a similar paradox involving the predicate ‘is poor’.

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   Jun 29, 2011 · Sorensen, R. “ Vagueness.”. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. 2006. Good quick overview of the problem of vagueness, introducing all the major contemporary theories. A bit light on discussion of epistemicist accounts. This work is freely available online. Williamson, T. Vagueness.

6. www.jstor.org › stable › 3506246Vagueness in the World - JSTOR

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   vagueness is ultimately a sui generis phenomenon not completely explicable in precise terms, the view to be presented approximates the phenomenon while giving substance to the idea that vagueness exists in the world, not just in language. 1. Outline of the View Many people think that the material world consists not only of three dimen-

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   Aug 18, 2020 · Elizabeth Barnes and J. Robert G. Williams claim to offer a new ontic theory of vagueness, the kind of theory which considers vagueness to exist not in language but in reality. This paper refutes ...

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   Is vagueness linguistic?

   • The vagueness is pictorial rather than discursive. So one cannot conclude that vagueness is linguistic merely from the premise that vagueness is representational. Or consider vague instrumental music such as Claude Debussy’s “The Clouds”. Music has syntax but too little semantics to qualify as language.

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   Is there a problem of vagueness?

   • But not quite. The ‘Problem of Vagueness’ is, fittingly, not one precise problem, but several related ones. A vague predicate can be defined in terms of boundarylessness (i.e., lacking sharp boundaries): F is vague if there are cases in which it is not determinate whether some particular x is F or not.

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   Is 'vague' vague?

   • This higher order vagueness seems to show that ‘vague’ is vague (Hu 2017). The vagueness of ‘vague’ would have two important consequences. First, Gottlob Frege could no longer coherently characterize vague predicates as incoherent. For his accusation uses ‘vague’.

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   What is a good book about vagueness?

   • Sorensen, R. “ Vagueness.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. 2006. Good quick overview of the problem of vagueness, introducing all the major contemporary theories. A bit light on discussion of epistemicist accounts.

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   What are some controversies about vagueness?

   • Other controversies include whether vagueness compels the adoption of a nonclassical logic, whether there is “ontic vagueness” (vagueness as a feature of the world itself rather than of representations), and whether ‘vagueness’ itself is vague.

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   What is the logic of vagueness?

   • Instead of there being one vague concept, there are many precise concepts that closely resemble each other. ‘Child’ can mean a human being at most one day old or mean a human being at most two days old or mean a human being at most three days old …. Thus the logic of vagueness is a logic for equivocators.

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9. www.researchgate.net › publication › 229809626(PDF) Vagueness in the World - ResearchGate

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   Aug 6, 2004 · According to this view, vagueness is in the world, in objects and properties themselves, and not just in language. In the above examples, the property of baldness, the geographical area Mt ...