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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 ...
When vagueness is characterized in terms of borderline cases, blurred boundaries, and Sorites‐susceptibility, all the main existing types of theory of vagueness can be seen as accommodating vagueness.
May 7, 2021 · 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.
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 21, 2020 · It begins by discussing some of the existing views on vagueness and then explains why they have not been thought to be satisfactory. It then outlines a new account of vagueness, based on the general idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon.
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Vagueness is a fast-growing and important area of philosophical research. Keefe's study offers a very sophisticated critique of all the main theories of vagueness. Will be of interest to readers not only in philosophy but also in linguistics and possibly computer science. Read more.
