The problem of artificial precision in theories of vagueness: a note on the rôle of maximal consistency

DOI10.1007/S10670-013-9587-4zbMATH Open1329.03062OpenAlexW3104385729MaRDI QIDQ907884FDOQ907884

Authors Vincenzo Marra

Publication date 27 January 2016

Published in Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4369

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Many-valued logic (03B50)

Abstract: The problem of artificial precision is a major objection to any theory of vagueness based on real numbers as degrees of truth. Suppose you are willing to admit that, under sufficiently specified circumstances, a predication of "is red" receives a unique, exact number from the real unit interval [0,1]. You should then be committed to explain what is it that determines that value, settling for instance that my coat is red to degree 0.322 rather than 0.321. In this note I revisit the problem in the important case of {L}ukasiewicz infinite-valued propositional logic that brings to the foreground the role of maximally consistent theories. I argue that the problem of artificial precision, as commonly conceived of in the literature, actually conflates two distinct problems of a very different nature.

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