Concept

Vagueness

Overview

problem in semantics, metaphysics and philosophical logic regarding predicates with indeterminate bound

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Vagueness

• Timothy Williamson
• Susanne Bobzien
• David Lewis (philosopher)
• Michael Tye (philosopher)
• John Hawthorne
• Achille Varzi (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• Cognition
• Philosophy
• Truth value
• Peter van Inwagen
• Metaphysics
• Information
• Species
• Linguistics
• Sorites paradox
• Denotation
• Philosophical logic
• Timothy Williamson
• Inference
• Many-valued logic
• David Lewis (philosopher)
• Terminology
• Tautology (logic)
• Fuzzy logic
• Common law
• Classical logic
• Nicholas Rescher
• Identity of indiscernibles
• Ambiguity

Opposing perspectives

• Logic translation

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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