Editorial: We need to think precisely about vagueness
In his book Not Exactly, Kees van Deemter argues that the very foundations of science don’t come in black and white.
Forgive the oxymoron, but how do you define vagueness?
A vague concept allows borderline cases. The potential confusion is that people think vagueness is when they don’t quite get what someone means. For people in my area of logic, it’s actually a much narrower phenomenon, such as the word “grey”. Some birds are clearly grey, some are clearly not, while others are somewhere in between. The fact that such birds exist…
