Vagueness, a Critical Review of a Counter-Intuitive Theory

Hosseini, Davoud; Movahed, Zia; Nabavi, Lotfollah; Hojatti, Seyed Mohammad Ali

Vagueness, a Critical Review of a Counter-Intuitive Theory

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Davoud Hosseini ¹

Zia Movahed ²

Lotfollah Nabavi ³

Seyed Mohammad Ali Hojatti ⁴

¹ PhD student in ‌ ‌ ‌ Logic of Tarbiat Modares University

² Professor of the Research Institute of Iranian Wisdom and Philosophy

³ Associate Professor of Tarbiat Modares University

⁴ Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

In this paper, at first, we describe the standard version of epistemic theory of vagueness. After that we criticize two parts of that theory: first we argue that its solution to the epistemic problem entails paradoxes other than sorites; then we argue that the theory cannot justify its counter-intuitiveness. We will conclude that these objections can refute the standard version of epistemic theory of vagueness.

Keywords

Vagueness

Borderline-Cases

Sorites Paradox

Intuition

Inexact Knowledge

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