@article {VanKerkhove2003, title = {Vagueness-Adaptive Logic: {A} Pragmatical Approach to Sorites Paradoxes}, journal = {Studia Logica}, volume = {75}, number = {3}, year = {2003}, pages = {383-411}, abstract = {

This paper defends a pragmatical approach to vagueness. The vagueness-adaptive logic VAL is a good reconstruction of and an excellent, instrument for human reasoning processes in which vague predicates are involved. Apart from its proof-theory and semantics, a Sorites-treating model based on it is presented, disarming the paradox. The paper opens perspectives with respect to the construction of theories by means of vague predicates.

}, keywords = {adaptive logic, construction of scientific theories, paraconsistent logic, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, Sorites paradox, vagueness}, issn = {0039-3215}, doi = {10.1023/B:STUD.0000009567.21578.0a}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B\%3ASTUD.0000009567.21578.0a}, author = {Van Kerkhove, Bart and Vanackere, Guido} }