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Volume 10   Number 2     Fall 2017

On Vagueness: A Wittgensteinian Discussion

Bo Allesøe Christensen
Aalborg University, Denmark


pp. 131-137
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Abstract. I will here use Wittgenstein’s scarce comments on vagueness in Philosophical Grammar as a perspective for discussing Boulanger’s use of the same concept. The aim is presenting a view on the vagueness not presupposing that vague concepts can be treated as determinable in the same way as non-vague concepts, instead vagueness calls for a high degree of context sensitivity and understanding of purposefulness.

 

Keywords: Wittgenstein, vagueness, ambiguousness, philosophical grammar