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Vagueness, Approximation, Error, Imprecision, Accuracy etc. all share the same “family resemblance”. The discussion in this paper will mainly concern vagueness although sometimes one or another of the other notions will show up.
The topic of vagueness is a very difficult one… it is,…, evident that we have an intuitive sympathy with Frege’s view that a vague expression is one which is, to that extent, defective in sense: any account of vagueness which failed at least to explain this intuitive feeling would be inadequate. At the same time we have also a contrary intuition, that vagueness is an indispensable feature of our language, that we could not operate with language as we do unless many of its expressions displayed this feature: and it is equally a requirement on any satisfactory account of vagueness that it should at least explain our having this intuition also.
Michael DUMMETT
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Termini, S. (1984). Aspects of Vagueness and Some Epistemological Problems Related to their Formalization. In: Skala, H.J., Termini, S., Trillas, E. (eds) Aspects of Vagueness. Theory and Decision Library, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6309-2_11
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