A note on the sorites paradox
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (1):74 – 75 (1979)
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Informal accounts of the sorites paradox usually emphasize that the problem is one of vagueness. The paper uses the idea of fuzzy truth values to provide a formal semantics which shows precisely how sorites-Type arguments are formally invalidAuthor's Profile
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