Ebook: Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic

List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: The Nature of Vagueness; I: What is Vagueness?; 1 A Metasemantic Account of Vagueness; 2 The Possibility of Partial Definition; 3 Vagueness and Second-Level Indeterminacy; 4 Vagueness as Indeterminacy; 5 Sorensen on Vagueness and Contradiction; II: Vagueness in Reality; 6 Vague Properties; 7 Vagaries about Vagueness; 8 Vagueness, Metaphysics, and Objectivity; III: Tolerance and Paradox; 9 Agnosticism and Vagueness; 10 Vague Intensions: A Modest Marriage Proposal; 11 This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundaries of Vague Terms.;Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. It is highly controversial what the nature of vagueness is - a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or rather a feature of reality itself? May even relations like identity or parthood be affected by vagueness? Sorites arguments suggest that vague terms are either inconsistent or have a sharp boundary. The account we give of such paradoxes plays a pivotal role for ourunderstanding of natural languages. If our reasoning involves any vague concepts, is it safe from contradiction? Do.