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Jan. 28th, 2010|12:16 am |
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Not Exactly: Vagueness as Original Sin?
kim? telpās, Maskavas iela 12/1, 28.01.2010, 19 00
sīkāk skat: http://www.kim.lv/lekcijas/sobrid/2
Abstract.
This talk, which is intended for non-specialist and speciālists alike,
will start demonstrating the generality of the phenomenon of
vagueness, in science as well as in daily life. I will show that
vagueness cannot be "reasoned away" (as has recently been attempted)
and conclude that vagueness is, in some ways, like Original Sin: a
stain that can be diminished but never removed. I will then argue that
probabilistic approaches to vagueness have the future, but that this
paradigm shift will come at a price. For if vagueness is taken
seriously in this way then life gets complicated, because we will be
expelled from Boole's Paradise, where every statement was either true
or false.
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