Smith, Nicholas J. J. The University of Sydney
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923300-7
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233007.003.0006
 

Nicholas J. J. Smith
This chapter considers objections to the fuzzy view of vagueness in particular, and to degree-theoretic treatments of vagueness in general. These objections are that the very idea of truth coming in degrees is in some way confused or mistaken; that fuzzy theory involves an objectionable violation of classical logic; that degrees of truth cannot be integrated with key developments elsewhere in philosophy of language, outside the study of vagueness; that degree theories which treat the logical connectives as truth functions cannot account for ordinary usage of, and/or intuitions about the truth and/or assertibility of, compound sentences about borderline cases; and that denying bivalence leads to contradiction.
Keywords: classical logic, assertibility, truth functionality, bivalence, fuzzy logic
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233007.003.0006
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Part I Foundations
Part II Vagueness
Part III Degrees of Truth