These degrees go to eleven: fuzzy logics and gradable predicates
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985556%3A_____%2F22%3A00563602" target="_blank" >RIV/67985556:_____/22:00563602 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985807:_____/22:00563602
Result on the web
<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03909-2" target="_blank" >https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03909-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03909-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-022-03909-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
These degrees go to eleven: fuzzy logics and gradable predicates
Original language description
In the literature on vagueness one finds two very different kinds of degree theory. The dominant kind of account of gradable adjectives in formal semantics and linguistics is built on an underlying framework involving bivalence and classical logic: its degrees are not degrees of truth. On the other hand, fuzzy logic based theories of vagueness—largely absent from the formal semantics literature but playing a significant role in both the philosophical literature on vagueness and in the contemporary logic literature—are logically nonclassical and give a central role to the idea of degrees of truth. Each kind of degree theory has a strength: the classical kind allows for rich and subtle analyses of the comparative form of gradable adjectives and of various types of gradable precise adjectives, while the fuzzy kind yields a compelling solution to the sorites paradox. This paper argues that the fuzzy kind of theory can match the benefits of the classical kind and hence that the burden is on the latter to match the advantages of the former. In particular, we develop a new version of the fuzzy logic approach that—unlike existing fuzzy theories—yields a compelling analysis of the comparative as well as an adequate account of gradable precise predicates, while still retaining the advantage of genuinely solving the sorites paradox.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10102 - Applied mathematics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-00113S" target="_blank" >GA18-00113S: Reasoning with graded properties</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Synthese
ISSN
0039-7857
e-ISSN
1573-0964
Volume of the periodical
200
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
38
Pages from-to
445
UT code for WoS article
000876310400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85140909114