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- A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face - Notes from a talk by Patrick Grim on applying fuzzy logic to the Sorites Paradox.
www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/sorensen/vagueness/fuzzy.htm
- Brian Weatherson's Vagueness Page - A student resource which includes online articles and a draft version of his book on vagueness, "Truer Words".
www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/homepages/weatherson/vagueness.htm
- How to Make Our Ideas Clear - 1878 article Charles Pierce.
www.peirce.org/writings/p119.html
- Liars and Heaps: The Logic and Semantics of Paradox - A conference to be held at the University of Connecticut, USA, on 11th-13th October 2002.
vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/conf02.html
- Russell on Vagueness - Online text of Russell's 1923 article.
www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Russell/vagueness
- The Egg Came Before the Chicken - Roy Sorensen applies the theory of genetic variation to argue that, against a vagueness argument, that the first chicken egg preceded the first chicken.
www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/sorensen/papers/egg.html
- Vague Concepts and Sorites Paradoxes - Article by Vlad Vieru.
www.ici.ro/ici/revista/sic98_3/art09.html
- Vagueness - Article in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, by Roy Sorensen.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/vagueness
- Vagueness and Ambiguity - A little test to help distinguish vagueness from ambiguity (from San Jose University's critical thinking pages).
www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/vague/vague.html
- Vagueness and Identity - Article by Loretta Torrago presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Makes the surprising argument that vagueness in identity statements is incompatible with vagueness of constitution.
www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaTorr.htm
- Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox - Site maintained by Justin Needle. Extensive links, and excerpts from his PhD thesis `Ruling Out the Sorites: Vagueness, Rules, Wittgenstein'.
www.falakros.net
- Vagueness, Semantics, and the Language of Thought - Article by Richard DeWitt.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v1/psyche-1-01-dewitt.html
- Where Demonstratives Meet Vagueness: Possible Languages - Article by Adam Morton, which appeared in Proc. Aristotelian Society. Argues that vagueness and demonstratives are connected, by means of constructing artificial languages in which the relationships are manufactured.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/02/37/cog00000237-00/199801002.html
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