Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 226
Vagueness: can be useful - it leaves the truth value untouched.
I 84
It is known that color words are grouped very differently in different languages, the color boundaries are vague in both languages. "Red" is a good translation of a native sentence, for example, if it resembles vagueness.
>Language acquisition.
I 156 ff
Learning/vagueness/Quine: Vagueness plays an important role in the first learning phase. Distribution around central norm values. "More or less red" can be more fundamental for learning than the "red norm".
I 228f
Ambiguity/Quine: is something other than vagueness.
>Ambiguity.
I 334
Vagueness, ambiguity and transience of the designation are characteristics of linguistic expressions and do not extend to the designated objects.
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VII (b) 27
Replaceability/Leibniz: replaceability salva seritate should provide synonymy.
Quine: this does not save the synonyms conceived in this way from vagueness.
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II 48
Bivalence/Divalence/Vagueness/Quine: I do not care very much about bivalence, mainly it is good for simplification. Besides the undecidable facts of the realists regarding physical objects, the vagueness of the terms has to be taken into account. Also here there are problems caused by bivalence:
Sorites: For example, if after removing a single grain from a heap of sand, there is always a heap left, then complete induction is used to ensure that a heap remains after removing all the grains.
II 128ff
Insufficient individuation has nothing to do with vagueness of demarcation. We are used to tolerating the vagueness of boundaries. (>Fine structure of a table). What the vagueness of boundaries on physical objects boils down to is that there are almost identical objects that are almost the same circumference and only differ in the inclusion or exclusion of several peripheral molecules. Any of these almost circumferential objects could serve as the table, without anyone being smarter about it. That is the vagueness of the table.
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VI 24/25
Science/verification/Quine: much of science is shielded by excuses such as vagueness from unreal conditional sentences or dispositions from simple tests of experience.
>Verification.