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On the Logos: A Naïve View on Ordinary Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic pp 191–194Cite as

A Few Questions on Naming Concepts

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 354))

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Vagueness can be seen as coming from a lack of distinguishability between those instances falling into both a word and its negation, and creating a borderline zone with elements not clearly separable by negation, something coming from a lack of distinction, or distinguishability, from the meaning of a word and its negation.

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Trillas, E. (2017). A Few Questions on Naming Concepts. In: On the Logos: A Naïve View on Ordinary Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56053-3_21

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