The term 'vagueness' is confined in this book to vagueness within or of a language. The consensus of opinion is that vagueness is characteristic of natural language and that formal languages are immune. The reasoning ground for this claim is the assumption that vagueness is where dichotomy is not the case, where classical logic fails. We take a different approach and suggest a characterization of the term 'vagueness', which holds both for natural and formal languages, saying that vagueness is where a theory collapses, when behavior governing rules are not obeyed any more, nor being replaced...
The term 'vagueness' is confined in this book to vagueness within or of a language. The consensus of opinion is that vagueness is characteristic of na...