Article Number 1083
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Vagueness is a fundamental, pervasive, and characteristic feature of natural language meaning. Almost every predicate whose applicability depends on gradient properties—which includes most content words in every language—exhibits vague uncertainty in borderline cases. The Sorities Paradox (the Paradox of the Heap) is the hallmark of vagueness: how can infitessimal differences add up to a qualitative change? Any adequate theory of vagueness must also explain the behavior of comparatives, interactions with discourse context, participation of vague terms in tautologies and contradictions, and higher-order vagueness. The main theories of vagueness to date include multi-valued (fuzzy) logic, supervaluation, and epistemological ignorance.
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