Vagueness. Its Semantic, Perceptual and Ontological Manifestations

Download or read book Vagueness. Its Semantic, Perceptual and Ontological Manifestations written by Rene Ramirez and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), language: English, abstract: The text argues that vagueness may be identified on the basis of three criteria: A term is vague if 1) it generates borderline cases; 2) if its application is subject to a distinctive type of puzzle called the sorites paradox; and 3) if it cannot be applied without violating traditional rules governing classification, a phenomenon known as boundarilessness.