Sentence examples for vague predicate from inspiring English sources

As to the claim that it is spurious to require one always be able to determine whether a concept applies, an analogy might be drawn with vagueness where borderline instances of a vague predicate may not permit one to tell whether the predicate applies or not.

Cheap is a vague predicate.

'Borderline' behaves just like a vague predicate.

On this view, "believe" is a vague predicate that admits of in-between cases.

Furthermore, McGee suggests that this behavior of truth and definite truth makes truth a vague predicate.

[MSP] is straightforwardly a sorites paradox one in which the vague predicate is '◊Ma' (that is, 'possibly originally constitutes a').

In contrast to the epistemic conception of vagueness, a semantic conception will treat the apparent semantic indeterminacy of vague predicates as real.

In semantic terms, the paradox applies to concepts with vague predicates (Hyde 2011).

Other commentators grant that it is logically possible that vague predicates have thresholds.

The ensuing "drawing the line" conundrum the sorites paradox arises from the vague predicates which humans use to convey concepts.

Paraconsistent models place a great deal of emphasis on cutoff points of vague predicates, attributing much of the trouble with the sorties paradox to underlying inconsistency of vague predicates (Weber 2010a).