Comparing some Substructural Strategies Dealing with Vagueness

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2016
Host editors
  • J.P. Carvalho
  • M.-J. Lesot
  • U. Kaymak
  • S. Vieira
  • B. Bouchon-Meunier
  • R.R. Yager
Book title Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
Book subtitle 16th International Conference, IPMU 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 20-24, 2016 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783319405803
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319405810
Series Communications in Computer and Information Science
Event 16th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
Volume | Issue number II
Pages (from-to) 161-172
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract It is well-known that in combination with further premises that look less controversial, the tolerance principle – the constraint that if Pa holds, and a and b are similar in P-relevant respects, Pb holds as well – leads to contradiction, namely to the sorites paradox. According to many influential views of the sorites paradox (e.g. Williamson 1994), we therefore ought to reject the principle of tolerance as unsound.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40581-0_14
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