USES AND ABUSES OF FUZZINESS IN PHILOSOPHY: A SELECTIVE SURVEY OF HOW RECENT PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS TREAT VAGUENESS

DOI10.1080/03081079508908043zbMATH Open0842.03007OpenAlexW2023534136MaRDI QIDQ4861649FDOQ4861649

Authors: David H. Sanford 

Publication date: 13 February 1996

Published in: International Journal of General Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079508908043

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zbMATH Keywords

fuzzy setsvaguenessborderline casesupervaluation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99)

Cites Work

• Vagueness, truth and logic
• Wang's paradox
• Is Higher Order Vagueness Coherent?
• A Note on the Logic of (Higher-Order) Vagueness
• Wright and Sainsbury on Higher-Order Vagueness
• Competing semantics of vagueness: Many values versus super-truth

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• Bipolar disorder: Horgan on vagueness and incoherence
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• Comments on ``Vagueness: a mathematician's perspective by Thomas Vetterlein
• Fuzzy logic and vagueness: can philosophers learn from Petr Hájek?
• The logic for metaphysical conceptions of vagueness
• Undead argument: the truth-functionality objection to fuzzy theories of vagueness

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