Essential Vagueness: Two Models, One Simple Truth

In Ali Abasenezhad & Otavio Bueno (eds.), On the Sorites. Springer (forthcoming)
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Abstract

What the Sorites has to tell us is a simple truth regarding our categories. It appears to saddle us with something other than a simple truth—something worse, a contradiction or a problem or a paradox—only when we insist on viewing it through a discrete logic of categories. Discrete categories and discrete logic are for robots. We aren’t robots, and the simple truth is that we don’t handle categories in the way any discrete logic would demand. For us non-robots, what the Sorites has to offer is a straightforward truth regarding how incapable robots and their logic are of handling categories like ours.

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Patrick Grim
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