At present, I am reading up on typicality and vagueness in the debates about the ontology of concepts.
My initial view is that vagueness is a form of ambiguity. While opponents of this view argue that ambiguous terms have effects that one does not see with obviously vague terms, I think that a relevant difference can explain this difference of effect: ambiguity proper results when many concepts participate in all of the same inferential relations as to naming only while vagueness taken as ambiguity results when many concepts participate in all of the same inferential relations, full stop.
We’ll see how this pans out. It also provides a complimentary account of typicality based on the overlap of general concepts standing in all of the same inferential relations.
you are a deep thinker arnt you !
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