V—Vagueness, Realism, Language and Thought |
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Authors: | Howard Robinson |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest 1051, Nador utca 9, Hungary |
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Abstract: | The problem of vagueness and the sorites paradox arise because we try to treat natural language as if it were a unitary formal system. In fact, natural language contains a large variety of representational ontologies that serve different purposes and which cannot be united formally, but which can intuitively be taken as ways of seeing a common basic ontology. Using this framework, we can save classical logic from vagueness and avoid the sorites. |
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