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Vagueness

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References and further reading

  • Broome, J. (1984) ‘Indefiniteness in Identity’, Analysis 44: 6–12.

    (Discussion of whether objects can have vague identities.)

  • Dummett, M. (1975) ‘Wang’s Paradox’, Synthè se 25: 301–324.

    (Vague observational predicates as logically incoherent.)

  • Evans, G. (1978) ‘Can There Be Vague Objects?’, Analysis 38: 208.

    (An argument against the existence of vague objects.)

  • Fine, K. (1975) ‘Vagueness, Truth, and Logic’, Synthèse 25: 265–300.

    (Classic early presentation of vagueness as semantic indecision.)

  • Forbes, G. (1985) The Metaphysics of Modality, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    (Includes a version of the degrees-of-truth approach.)

  • Goguen, J. (1969) ‘The Logic of Inexact Concepts’, Synthè se 19: 325–373.

    (An early statement of the degrees-of-truth theory.)

  • Heller, M. (1990) The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (Sorites arguments deployed in defence of the view that the world is precise.)

  • Horgan, T. (1994a) Spindel Conference on Vagueness, supplement to Southern Journal of Philosophy 33.

    (Good collection of new papers on vagueness.)

  • Horgan, T. (1994b) ‘Robust Vagueness and the Forced March Sorites Paradox’, Philosophical Perspectives 8: 159–188.

    (A new form of sorites reasoning and its consequences.)

  • Inwagen, P. van (1988) ‘How To Reason About Vague Objects’, Philosophical Topics 16: 255–284.

    (A non-classical logic for reasoning about vague objects.)

  • Lewis, D.K. (1986) The Plurality of Worlds, Oxford: Blackwell.

    (Simple statement of the semantic indecision theory.)

  • Lewis, D.K. (1993) ‘Many, But Almost One’, in K. Campbell, J. Bacon and L. Reinhardt (eds) Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays on the Philosophy of D.M. Armstrong, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (Arguments against the existence of vague objects.)

  • Putnam, H. (1983) ‘Vagueness and Alternative Logic’, Erkenntnis 19: 297–314.

    (A discussion of vagueness and non-classical logic.)

  • Sainsbury, M. (1991) ‘Is There Higher-Order Vagueness?’, Philosophical Quarterly 41: 167–182.

    (Discussion of whether there can be borderline borderline cases.)

  • Sanford, D. (1975) ‘Borderline Logic’, American Philosophical Quarterly 12: 29–39.

    (Formal development of the degrees-of-truth approach.)

  • Sorensen, R. (1988) Blindspots, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    (Vagueness as ignorance.)

  • Thomason, R. (1982) ‘Identity and Vagueness’, Philosophical Studies 42: 329–332.

    (Discussion of Evans’ argument from identity against the existence of vague objects.)

  • Tye, M. (1990) ‘Vague Objects’, Mind 99: 535–557.

    (Vagueness in both the object language and the metalanguage; defence of vagueness in the world.)

  • Unger, P. (1979a) ‘There are No Ordinary Things’, Synthèse 41: 117–154.

    (Sorites arguments against the existence of ordinary things.)

  • Unger, P. (1979b) ‘Why There are No People’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4: 177–222.

    (Sorites arguments against the existence of people.)

  • Wheeler, S. (1979) ‘On That Which is Not’, Synthèse 41: 155–173.

    (Sorites arguments against the existence of ordinary things.)

  • Williamson, T. (1994) Vagueness, London: Routledge.

    (Clear defence of the view that vagueness is ignorance.)

  • Williamson, T. (1975) ‘On the Coherence of Vague Predicates’, Synthèse 30: 325–363.

    (Broad examination of the nature of vagueness.)

  • Zadeh, L. (1965) ‘Fuzzy Sets’, Information and Control 8: 338–353.

    (Early presentation of the degrees-of-truth approach.)

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