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Feb 8, 1997 · Vagueness is standardly defined as the possession of borderline cases. For example, ‘tall’ is vague because a man who is 1.8 meters in height is neither clearly tall nor clearly non-tall. No amount of conceptual analysis or empirical investigation can settle whether a 1.8 meter man is tall.
May 7, 2021 · Abstract. Classically, vagueness has been considered something bad. It leads to the Sorites paradox, borderline cases, and the (apparent) violation of the logical principle of bivalence. Nevertheless, there have always been scholars claiming that vagueness is also valuable.
- David Lanius
- 2021
Yet what does the existence of higher-order vagueness say for the hopes of producing a theory of vagueness which is able to say anything precise? There is also the matter of the possible implications vagueness has for classical logic.
Rather than three piecemeal characterizations of vagueness, it would be desirable to have a fundamental definition of vagueness: a statement of what is of the essence of vagueness, given which, we can see why vague predicates have borderline cases, generate Sorites paradoxes, and draw blurred boundaries.
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 ...
Vagueness is an intrinsic part of quantum mechanics, the study of the world at the atomic and subatomic level. In particular, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle tells us that we cannot know exactly both a wave-particle’s position and its momentum (or other given pairs of properties).
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Jun 29, 2011 · Introduction. Much, or perhaps all, of natural language is vague: the concepts expressed in natural language seem to have unclear boundaries. A central example is that of “heap”—as grains of sand are removed from a heap, at what point does it cease to be a heap?
