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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
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’.
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. It discusses three of the main attempts to deal with these problems – Supervaluationism, Degree theory, and ...
Feb 8, 1997 · Vagueness. First published Sat Feb 8, 1997; substantive revision Thu Apr 5, 2018. There is wide agreement that a term is vague to the extent that it has borderline cases. This makes the notion of a borderline case crucial in accounts of vagueness. I shall concentrate on an historical characterization of borderline cases that most commentators ...
Feb 8, 1997 · They stand by classical logic and conclude that vagueness is a form of ignorance. For any day in the borderline region of ‘child’, there is a small probability that it is the day one stopped being a child. Normally, the probability is negligible. But if we round down to zero, we fall into into inconsistency.
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.
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May 1, 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 ...
