Vagueness: where degree-based approaches are useful, and where we can do without (Q2391897)

This interesting paper explains the author's point of view that vagueness phenomena like the sorites might be understood as based upon references to different scales -- a rather coarse one and a very fine graned -- and might be treated using a similarity-based approximate entailment as proposed by \textit{E. H. Ruspini} [Int. J. Approx. Reasoning 5, No. 1, 45--88 (1991; Zbl 0724.03018)]. In some detail the author first discusses in this context the sorites paradox, and later on develops an axiomatic system for vague reasoning which allows him to derive some generalized Aristotelian syllogisms which refer to vague quantifiers, and have previously been discussed with reference to fuzzy-set techniques by \textit{V. Novák} [Fuzzy Sets Syst. 159, No. 10, 1229--1246 (2008; Zbl 1176.03011)].