Ebook: Cuts and clouds: vagueness, its nature, and its logic

Vagueness is a deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. Is it a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or a feature of reality itself? How can we reason with vague concepts? This book presents the latest work towards an understanding of these puzzles about the nature and logic of vagueness. List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: The Nature of Vagueness; I: What is Vagueness?; II: Vagueness in Reality; III: Tolerance and Paradox; IV: Vagueness in Context; PART II: The Logic of Vagueness; V: Supervaluationism; VI: Paraconsistent Logics; VII: Many-Valued Logics; VIII: Higher-Order Vagueness; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z