Instruments, Artifacts and Context
It is notoriously difficult to model the range of application of vague predicates relative to a suitable sorites series. In this paper I offer some critical remarks against an interesting view that has received little attention in the literature. According to it, the sharp cut-offs we find in our se...
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| description | It is notoriously difficult to model the range of application of vague predicates relative to a suitable sorites series. In this paper I offer some critical remarks against an interesting view that has received little attention in the literature. According to it, the sharp cut-offs we find in our semantic models are just artifacts of the theory, and, as such, they are harmless. At the end I discuss a contextualist view that, at a cost, may be able to get around the problems related to sharp cut-offs incurred in by other theories of vagueness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44822ad0c5de487ab323a9b9ed2c46022023-08-02T03:23:39ZengSociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF)Análisis Filosófico0326-13011851-96362018-05-013818310210.36446/af.2018.286Instruments, Artifacts and ContextRicardo Mena0Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoIt is notoriously difficult to model the range of application of vague predicates relative to a suitable sorites series. In this paper I offer some critical remarks against an interesting view that has received little attention in the literature. According to it, the sharp cut-offs we find in our semantic models are just artifacts of the theory, and, as such, they are harmless. At the end I discuss a contextualist view that, at a cost, may be able to get around the problems related to sharp cut-offs incurred in by other theories of vagueness.http://analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af/article/view/286vaguenessphilosophy of languageinstrumentalism |
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