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The vagueness so far discussed does not require vagueness in the world. But worldly vagueness can be treated in a similar way. Suppose, as we normally do, that there really is a nonlinguistic property of being red, a property expressed by the predicate ‘is red’. This predicate is vague and so is the property.
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.
Abstract. 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 language.
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’.
At the same time, I think we should not jump to the conclusion that all the vagueness of language has an ontological origin. If the world were precise, language would remain vague, because reference is determined in ways that do not preclude indeterminacy. The existence of ontological vageuness does not let language off the hook.
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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Jul 11, 2012 · Fuzzy logic alone is not sufficient for modeling vagueness at a level that matches the many subtle aspects of vague language use that have emerged from philosophical and linguistic research on this topic. (p. v) The connection between the book and LoMoReVI is that most of the contributions were presentations at a conference run by the research ...
