Vagueness-adaptive logic: A pragmatical approach to sorites paradoxes

Studia Logica 75 (3):383-411 (2003)
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This paper defends a pragmatical approach to vagueness. The vagueness-adaptive logic VAL is a good reconstruction of and an excellent, instrument for human reasoning processes in which vague predicates are involved. Apart from its proof-theory and semantics, a Sorites-treating model based on it is presented, disarming the paradox. The paper opens perspectives with respect to the construction of theories by means of vague predicates.

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Bart Van Kerkhove
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