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Vagueness - An Investigation into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Vagueness - An Investigation into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Reason and Argument, 4
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This work is in two parts. It began as a general investigation of
vagueness in natural languages. The Sorites Paradox came to
dominate the work however, and the second part of the book consists
in an discussion ofthat puzzle and related problems. The first part
contains a general discussion ofthe nature ofvagueness and its
sources. I discuss various conceptions of vagueness in chapter 1
and outline some of the problems to do with the conception of
vagueness as a linguistic phenomenon. The most interesting of these
is the Sorites paradox, which occurs where natural languages
exhibit a particular variety of borderline case vagueness. I
discuss some sources of vagueness of the borderline case variety,
and views of the relation between linguistic behaviour and
languages which are vague in this sense. I argue in chapter 2 that
these problems are not to be easily avoided by statistical
averaging techniques or attempts to provide a mathematical model of
consensus in linguistic usage. I also consider in chapter 3 various
approaches to the problem of providing an adequate logic and
semantics for vague natural languages, and argue against two
currently popular approaches to vagueness. These are supervaluation
accounts which attempt to provide precise semantic models for vague
languages based on the notion of specification spaces, and attempts
to replace the laws ofclassical logic with systems offuzzy logic.
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