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7 - Dialetheism and the Sorites Paradox

from Part I - Solutions to the Sorites Paradox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2019

Edited by
Sergi Oms  and
Elia Zardini
Sergi Oms
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
Elia Zardini
Affiliation:
University of Lisbon
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Summary

The chapter explains and defends a dialetheic account of vagueness and its solution to the Sorites Paradox. According to this, statements in the middle of a Sorites progression are both true and false. After an explanation of an appropriate paraconsistent logic, detailed models of Sorites transitions are provided. Crucial to any supposed solution to the Sorites Paradox is how it handles the matter of cut-offs. Much of the chapter concerns how a dialetheic solution handles this.

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vaguenessSorites Paradoxdialetheismparaconsistent logiccut-offsForced-March Sorites
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The Sorites Paradox , pp. 135 - 150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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