Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic
Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic by Richard Dietz
English | 11 Feb. 2010 | ISBN: 0199570388 | 600 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | 11 Feb. 2010 | ISBN: 0199570388 | 600 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. It is highly controversial what the nature of vagueness is - a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or rather a feature of reality itself? May even relations like identity or parthood be affected by vagueness? Sorites arguments suggest that vague terms are either inconsistent or have a sharp boundary. The account we give of such paradoxes plays a pivotal role for our understanding of natural languages.