• DocumentCode
    598638
  • Title

    Supervaluationism and rough set theory

  • Author

    Fu, Hao Cheng

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Philosophy, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    11-13 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    135
  • Lastpage
    137
  • Abstract
    In this paper, I want to propose a revised version to supervaluationists´ strategy on vagueness by rough set theory. The main reason to my work is due to the very intuition about all the boundaries of vague terms must be obviously vague, i.e. not only the boundary of positive and negative extension but also the boundaries of positive or negative extension and borderline cases are vague. Nonetheless, although supervaluationists indeed provided a smart way to solve the first-order vagueness but they were trapped on another serious problem, i.e. higher-order vagueness. I hold that the rough set theory can save supervaluationism from the big trouble of higher-order vagueness. The central idea of preceding claim is that the boundaries constructed by rough set theory are not fixed but rather flexible, which fit to the essential features of vague terms.
  • Keywords
    higher-order vagueness; rough set theory; supervaluationism; vagueness;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Granular Computing (GrC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hangzhou, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2310-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GrC.2012.6468591
  • Filename
    6468591