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Only true to a degree

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The problem of artificial precision in theories of vagueness: a note on the role of maximal consistency

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[I]f c denotes my coat, and my coat is of a peculiar tint at the borderline between red and pink, on theories of this sort the proposition R(c) :=“My coat is red” is to be considered neither true nor false, but rather true to some intermediate degree. In this line of thought, a much stronger and yet popular assumption is that the real unit interval [0, 1] embodies “degrees of truth.”

{ Vincenzo Marra/arXiv | Continue reading }

art { Josef Albers, Structural Constellation To Ferdinand Hodler, 1954 }





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