Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic

Cuts and Clouds Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world.It is highly controversial what the nature of vagueness is – a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or rather a feature of reality itself? May even relations like identity or parthood be affected by vagueness? Sorites arguments suggest that vague terms are either inconsistent or have a sharp boundary. The account we give of such paradoxes plays a pivotal role for our understanding of natural languages. If our reasoning involves any vague concepts, is it safe from contradiction? Do vague concepts really lack any sharp boundary? If not, why are we reluctant to accept the existence of any sharp boundary for them? And what rules of inference can we validly apply, if we reason in vague terms? Cuts and Clouds presents the latest work towards a clearer understanding of these old puzzles about the nature and logic of vagueness. The collection offers a stimulating series of original essays on these and related issues by some of the world’s leading experts. Additional ISBNs 9780191573330Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic 1st Edition is written by Richard Dietz; Sebastiano Moruzzi and published by OUP Oxford. ISBNs for Cuts and Clouds are 9780191610073, 0191610070 and the print ISBNs are 9780199570386, 0199570388. Additional ISBNs include 9780191573330.