Comments on Vagueness, Tolerance and Non-Transitive
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Robert van Rooij presents an original framework dealing with the formalization of vague predicates. His solution is based on a non-classical entailment, which he calls tolerant entailment. The author thoroughly discusses the relation of his solution to the major approaches to vagueness (supervaluationism, contextualism, epistemic approaches, . . . ) and gives an analysis of higher order vagueness. The paper discusses several topics related to the analysis of vagueness. We shall not comment on all of them but instead concentrate on the notion of tolerant truth and its connections to modal logic.
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