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Vagueness by Numbers? No Worries
Take the vague predicate ‘tall’: I claim that any numbers assigned in an attempt to capture the vagueness of ‘tall’ do no more than serve as another measure of height. More generally, in so far as it is possible to assign numbers which respect certain truths about, for example, comparative relations, this is no more than a measure of an attribute related to, or underlying, the vague predicate. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/291371c0