A note on the sorites paradox

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (1):74 – 75 (1979)
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Informal accounts of the sorites paradox usually emphasize that the problem is one of vagueness. The paper uses the idea of fuzzy truth values to provide a formal semantics which shows precisely how sorites-Type arguments are formally invalid

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10.1080/00048407912341061

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Many-valued logic.Nicholas Rescher - 1969 - New York,: McGraw-Hill.
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