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Philosophy

Vagueness, Sorites Paradox, and the Logic of Fuzzy Predicates

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The sorites paradox has been known since ancient Greece, and fuzzy logic—which assigns truth values between 0 and 1—was formally developed in the 1960s, offering a precise way to model how vague predicates behave.

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A single grain of sand isn't a heap, and adding one grain can't turn a non-heap into a heap. Yet somehow, repeatedly adding grains eventually creates a heap. How can that be?