Vagueness

A Reader

By: Rosanna Kenney

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Vagueness is currently the subject of vigorous debate in the philosophy of logic and language. Vague terms--such as 'tall', 'red', 'bald', and 'tadpole'--have borderline cases (arguably, someone may be neither tall nor not tall); and they lack well-defined extensions (there is no sharp boundary between tall people and the rest). The phenomenon of vagueness poses a fundamental challenge to classical logic and semantics, which assumes that propositions are either true or false and that extensions are determinate. This anthology collects for the first time the most important papers in the field. After a substantial introduction that surveys the field, the essays form four groups, starting with some historically notable pieces. The 1970s saw an explosion of interest in vagueness, and the second group of essays reprints classic papers from this period. The following group of papers represent the best recent work on the logic and semantics of vagueness. The essays in the final group are contributions to the continuing debate about vague objects and vague identity.

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This balanced and comprehensive collection will be a standard reference for many years to come. -- Alice Kyburg * Computational Linguistics *

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: theories of vagueness
Overview
The epistemic view
Supervaluationism
Many-valued logic and degree theories
Ontic vagueness On the sorites
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 7.441
Galen, On Medical Experience 16.117.32
Cicero, Academica 2.92943
Vagueness
Vagueness: an exercise in logical analysis
Introduction
Vagueness described
Location of the fringe
Is vagueness subjective?
Definition of the consistency-profile
Vagueness and logic
Truth and vagueness
The sorites paradox
Wang's paradox
Vagueness, truth and logic
The truth-value approach
An alternative framework
The super-truth theory
The logic of vagueness
Higher-order vagueness
Language-mastery and the sorites paradox
Truth, belief and vagueness
Further reflections on the sorites paradox
The governing view and the sorites paradox
Accepting the paradox
Resolving the paradox by jettison of the first claim of the governing view
Tolerance and observationality
Higher-order vagueness and the No Sharp Boundaries paradox
The governing view and the major premises
Conclusion
Concepts without boundaries
Vagueness and ignorance
Sorites paradoxes and the semantics of vagueness
Vagueness by degrees
The analogy
Validity
Verity and the logical constants
Delivering the goods
Should we accept the package?
Why verity is not credence
Can there be vague objects?
Vague identity: Evans misunderstood
Worldly indeterminacy of identity
Background
Abstracts and the Evans argument (and its successors)
Describing the theory
Semantics
How many cats are there?
Indeterminate naming
References
Index
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