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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.
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 · Something very similar can be said for another argument that might be made for the value of vagueness. Because the world is fuzzy and we want to correctly and adequately represent the world, we should use vague language. (1) It is desirable to correctly and adequately represent the world. (2) The world is fuzzy.
- David Lanius
- 2021
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.
Mar 28, 2016 · A ‘first strand’ of behavioral economics, which emerged based on the work of psychologists in the 1970s, found that people in fact make systematic, biased judgments. “Much of our thinking is unconscious; we make decisions that we’re not even aware of,” said Hoff. “We are very susceptible to the context at the moment of decision.”.
In contemporary literature, the problem of vagueness is most often presented using the sorites paradox, Eubulides’s paradox of the heap. 1 If we take a number n that makes it unquestionably true that n grains of sand make a heap (say one million), and add the unobjectionable inductive assumption that, for any number m, if m grains of sand make a heap, then m–1 grains of sand also make a ...
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Sep 26, 2019 · 2 The Vagueness of Vague Terms. This might all seem like a storm in a teacup. A term is vague if it has borderline cases of application, the reader might reply. And to have borderline cases of application grossly means to have “cases in which one does not know whether to apply the expression or to withhold it (…).” 6.
