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- Title
Undead argument: the truth-functionality objection to fuzzy theories of vagueness.
- Authors
Smith, Nicholas
- Abstract
From Fine and Kamp in the 70's-through Osherson and Smith in the 80's, Williamson, Kamp and Partee in the 90's and Keefe in the 00's-up to Sauerland in the present decade, the objection continues to be run that fuzzy logic based theories of vagueness are incompatible with ordinary usage of compound propositions in the presence of borderline cases. These arguments against fuzzy theories have been rebutted several times but evidently not put to rest. I attempt to do so in this paper.
- Subjects
FUZZY algorithms; CLUSTER set theory; VAGUENESS doctrine (Constitutional law); CONSTITUTIONAL law; VAGUENESS (Philosophy)
- Publication
Synthese, 2017, Vol 194, Issue 10, p3761
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-014-0651-7