Philosophy · Philosophy of Language
A topic within Philosophy of Language, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Roy Sorensen
Surveys the competing accounts of why predicates like 'bald' or 'tall' have no sharp cutoff, from the view that vagueness is a gap in our knowledge to the view that reality itself has fuzzy boundaries.
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Sets out the paradox that removing one grain from a heap never turns it into a non-heap, yet enough removals plainly do, and surveys why every proposed solution has to give up something that looks obviously true.
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