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Vagueness as Arbitrariness

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 436)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66781-8

ISBN: 978-3-030-66780-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 13, 2021

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Introduction

Salles, Sagid

Pages: 1 –8

[This is an introductory chapter. I present the sorites paradox in a very informal way and explain why it matters to philosophy. I then make some introductory remarks about how I understand the problem of vagueness. Both the sorites paradox and the problem of vagueness will be more precisely...
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Problem of Vagueness

Salles, Sagid

Pages: 9 –31

[I present and motivate a more precise formulation of the problem of vagueness. This formulation has two important elements. First, I defend three criteria of adequacy for an ideal theory of vagueness, which I call the “criterion of sorites”, “criterion of coherence” and “criterion of...
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Imprecise Predicates

Salles, Sagid

Pages: 33 –64

[In this chapter, I consider some different definitions of the linguistic conception of imprecision, proposing that a predicate is imprecise if and only if there is no sharp boundary between objects to which its application yields some particular truth-value and objects to which its application...
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Theories of Vagueness

Salles, Sagid

Pages: 65 –128

[In this chapter, I consider some of the main theories of vagueness: Three-Valued Theory, Supervaluationism, Degrees-of-Truth Theory, Epistemicism, Incoherentism and Contextualism. I briefly argue that all fail to solve the problem of vagueness as interpreted in Chap. 2. I claim that none of them...
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Vagueness as Arbitrariness

Salles, Sagid

Pages: 129 –200

[In this chapter, I present the Theory of Vagueness as Arbitrariness (VA). In Sect. 5.1 I consider some minimal constraints on the use of vague predicates. I argue that the principle of tolerance should not be considered a constraint, and that the clear-case constraint should be replaced by the...

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