Understanding Vagueness
Logical, Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives
Volume 36 of Studies in Logic
Editors: Petr Cintula, Christian G. Fermüller, Lluis Godo and Petr Hajek
College Publications, November 2011
ISBN-10: 1848900376
ISBN-13: 978-1848900370
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Vague language and corresponding models of inference and information processing is an important and challenging topic as witnessed by a number of recent monographs and collections of essays devoted to the topic.
This volume collects fifteen papers, the majority of which originated with talks presented at the conference "Logical Models of Reasoning with Vague Information (LoMoReVI)", September 14-17, 2009, in Čejkovice, that initiated a EUROCORES/LogICCC project with the same title.
At least two features set the current volume apart from other texts: first, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic is nicely reflected by the wide range of interests of the authors, who include philosophers, linguists, logicians, as well as mathematicians and computer scientists. Secondly, all the papers are accompanied by comments written by other authors and a few outside experts. These comments and corresponding replies by the authors document the very lively ongoing debate on adequate models of vague language.
CONTENTS
- Preface [PDF]
- Fuzzy Logic and Higher-Order Vagueness [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Libor Behounek [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Comments by Francesco Paoli [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Inconstancy and Inconsistency [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Nicholas J.J.Smith [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Vagueness: A Mathematician's Perspective [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Christian G. Fermüller [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Vagueness Through Definitions [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comparison of Complex Predicates: and, or
and more [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by David Ripley [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Vagueness in Quantity: Two Case Studies from a Linguistic Perspective [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Vagueness in Language: The Case Against Fuzzy Logic Revisited [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Christian G. Fermüller [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Vagueness, Tolerance and Non-Transitive Entailment [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Ondrej Majer [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Comparing Context Updates in Delineation and Scale Based Models of Vagueness
[PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by David Ripley [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Standpoint Semantics:
A Framework For Formalising the Variable Meaning of Vague Terms [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Peter Milne [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Handling Borderline Cases Using Degrees:
An Information Processing Perspective [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Lluis Godo [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Have Fuzzy Sets Anything to Do with Vagueness? [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Lluis Godo [PDF]
- Author's Reply [PDF]
- Many-Valued Semantics for Vague Counterfactuals [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Ondrej Majer [PDF]
- Reasoning About Uncertainty
of Fuzzy Events: An Overview [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Tomas Kroupa [PDF]
- A Conversation About Fuzzy Logic and Vagueness [PDF] [BibTeX]
- Comments by Nicholas J.J. Smith [PDF]