Vagueness and Naturalness |
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Authors: | Ross P Cameron |
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Institution: | (1) University of Leeds, Leeds, UK |
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Abstract: | I attempt to accommodate the phenomenon of vagueness with classical logic and bivalence. I hold that for any vague predicate
there is a sharp cut-off between the things that satisfy it and the things that do not; I claim that this is due to the greater
naturalness of one of the candidate meanings of that predicate. I extend the thought to the problem of the many and Benacerraf
cases. I go on to explore the idea that it is ontically indeterminate what the most natural meanings are, and hence ontically
indeterminate where the sharp cut-off in a sorites series is. |
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