Context, Interest Relativity And The Sorites
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AnalysisAccording to what I will call a contextualist soluti vague terms are context-sensitive, and one can tion of the sorites paradox in terms of this conte according to the contextualist, that precise bound'heap'or'tall for a basketball player'are so diffic two entities are sufficiently similar (or saliently the interpretation of the vague expression so th in the extension of the property expressed by th other. As a consequence, when we look for the of a vague expression in its penumbra, our very changing the interpretation of the vague expre is not where we are looking. This accounts for sorites arguments.
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