Open AccessInstruments, Artifacts and Context
Author(s) -
Ricardo Mena
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
análisis filosófico
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 1851-9636
pISSN - 0326-1301
DOI - 10.36446/af.2018.286
Subject(s) - vagueness , context (archaeology) , epistemology , computer science , range (aeronautics) , artificial intelligence , philosophy , history , archaeology , fuzzy logic , materials science , composite material
It is notoriously difficult to model the range of application of vague predicates relative to a suitable sorites series. In this paper I offer some critical remarks against an interesting view that has received little attention in the literature. According to it, the sharp cut-offs we find in our semantic models are just artifacts of the theory, and, as such, they are harmless. At the end I discuss a contextualist view that, at a cost, may be able to get around the problems related to sharp cut-offs incurred in by other theories of vagueness.