Vagueness

Vagueness Links

Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox Site maintained by Justin Needle. Extensive links, and excerpts from his PhD thesis `Ruling Out the Sorites: Vagueness, Rules, Wittgenstein'.
Vagueness, Semantics, and the Language of Thought Article by Richard DeWitt.
Vague Concepts and Sorites Paradoxes Article by Vlad Vieru.
Vagueness Article in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, by Roy Sorensen.
How to Make Our Ideas Clear 1878 article Charles Pierce.
Russell on Vagueness Online text of Russell's 1923 article.
The Egg Came Before the Chicken Roy Sorensen applies the theory of genetic variation to argue that, against a vagueness argument, that the first chicken egg preceded the first chicken.
A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face Notes from a talk by Patrick Grim on applying fuzzy logic to the Sorites Paradox.
Where Demonstratives Meet Vagueness: Possible Languages Article by Adam Morton, which appeared in Proc. Aristotelian Society. Argues that vagueness and demonstratives are connected, by means of constructing artificial languages in which the realtionships are manufactured.
Vagueness and Identity Article by Loretta Torrago presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Makes the surprising argument that vagueness in identity statements is incompatible with vagueness of constitution.

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