Vagueness : preliminary to a Wittgensteinian solution to the problems
The problems of vagueness, e.g. the Sorites paradox, are a significant concern of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy of language and philosophy of logic. And the vagueness of language that gives rise to these problems was itself a significant concern of Ludwig Wittgensteinâs in his later writings. It is therefore surprising that no-one has really brought Wittgensteinâs ideas on vagueness to bear on those problems in the current debate. The following study is my attempt to do this. There is, I believe, in Wittgensteinâs Philosophical Investigations, the groundwork for an eventual blanket solution to the problems of vagueness and I have tried to write an exposition of the relevant sections of the book and to indicate how the account contained therein relates to the problems. The solution to the problems of vagueness is, as I understand it, a corollary to Wittgensteinâs conception of the nature of logic in Philosophical Investigations, and this conception forms the core of my study. I begin, though, with an account of some of the problems themselves, and my account is in the form of an exposition of several arguments contained in the writings of Gottlob Frege. With these arguments Frege presents a
Diggle, Phillip James
Vagueness : preliminary to a Wittgensteinian solution to the problems. The problems of vagueness, e.g. the Sorites paradox, are a significant concern of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy of language and philosophy of logic. And the vagueness of language that gives rise to these problems was itself a significant concern of Ludwig Wittgensteinâs in his later writings. It is therefore surprising that no-one has really brought Wittgensteinâs ideas on vagueness to bear on those problems in the current debate. The following study is my attempt to do this. There is, I believe, in Wittgensteinâs Philosophical Investigations, the groundwork for an eventual blanket solution to the problems of vagueness and I have tried to write an exposition of the relevant sections of the book and to indicate how the account contained therein relates to the problems. The solution to the problems of vagueness is, as I understand it, a corollary to Wittgensteinâs conception of the nature of logic in Philosophical Investigations, and this conception forms the core of my study. I begin, though, with an account of some of the problems themselves, and my account is in the form of an exposition of several arguments contained in the writings of Gottlob Frege. With these arguments Frege presents a
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