Hailed as "amusing, persuasive, conversational, and engaging" (Times Higher Education Supplement), this stimulating volume cuts across various disciplines--including artificial intelligence, logic, and computer science--to illuminate the nature and importance of vagueness. Indeed, our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness. We say someone is "tall," for example, but when exactly do we become tall--Five eleven? Six foot? Six one? Kees Van Deemter shows why vagueness is both unavoidable and useful, and he demonstrates how tempting--and how wrong--it often is to think in terms of black...