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May 12, 2012 · Vague means that the information is lacking in detail - if you give a vague description of something, the listener/reader won't be able to imagine the subject with much precision.
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Rather than three piecemeal characterizations of vagueness, it would be desirable to have a fundamental definition of vagueness: a statement of what is of the essence of vagueness, given which, we can see why vague predicates have borderline cases, generate Sorites paradoxes, and draw blurred boundaries.
Jun 23, 2021 · Closing a question that asks what a standard elementary mathematical notation notation means (yes, elementary - I learned what it meant in school when I was aged about 13) "because the answer is unsourced speculation" is ridiculous IMO. All it demonstrates is the ignorance of the person recommending closing the question. – alephzero.
If your grasp of physics is vague and you've got a test coming up, it's time to hit the books. When something is vague, it’s unclear, murky, and hard to understand. Vague comes from the Latin vagus, which means wandering or rambling.
May 7, 2021 · Classically, vagueness has been considered something bad. It leads to the Sorites paradox, borderline cases, and the (apparent) violation of the logical principle of bivalence. Nevertheless, there have always been scholars claiming that vagueness is also valuable.
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Sep 26, 2019 · Philosophers often start from a word and take it (its vagueness) for granted. 1 The same is true for references to vagueness in law, which is generally assumed to be readily recognizable. 2. But what exactly should count as a vague term? The stock examples (soritical terms) in the literature are “heap” and “bald.”
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This chapter introduces the philosophical concept of vagueness and explains its significance for contemporary philosophy. The concept is seen to give rise to two main problems: the ‘soritic problem’ of finding a solution to the paradoxes of vagueness; and the ‘semantic problem’ of finding a satisfactory semantics and logic for vague ...
