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- Thus when philosophers talk of vagueness, they are interested in the kind of indeterminacy that is characteristic of the indeterminacy in the application of such terms as “bald” or “heap” or in the boundaries of such objects as Mount Everest or a cloud. Vagueness, on the face of it, can reside in both language and the world.
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Vagueness in language and the world. Many linguistic terms are vague. But of what exactly does their vagueness consist? Consider, for example, the term ‘bald’. This term has borderline cases of application. There are people to whom the term, as it is ordinarily used, neither clearly applies nor clearly fails to apply.
Feb 8, 1997 · Evans agrees that there are vague identity statements in which one of the flanking terms is vague (just as Kripke agrees that there are contingent identity statements when one of the flanking terms is a flaccid designator). But then the vagueness is due to language, not the world.
Vagueness, on the face of it, can reside in both language and the world. However, in what follows I shall mainly focus on vagueness in language, although I do hope to say something later about vagueness in the world.
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?
this view, vagueness is in the world, in objects and properties themselves, and not just in language. In the above examples, the property of baldness, the geographical area Mt. Everest, and the cat Tibbles are themselves vague, not just the terms 'is bald', 'Mt. Everest', and 'Tibbles'.
Aug 6, 2004 · According to this view, vagueness is in the world, in objects and properties themselves, and not just in language. In the above examples, the property of baldness, the geographical...
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.
