Vagueness is often regarded as a kind of defect of our language or of our thinking. This paper portrays vagueness as the natural outcome of applying a number of rationality principles to the cognitive domain. Given our physical and cognitive makeup, and given the way the world is, applying those principles to conceptualization predicts not only the concepts that are actually in use, but also their vagueness, and how and when their vagueness manifests itself (insofar as the concepts are vague).
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Douven, I. (2019). The Rationality of Vagueness. In Language, Cognition, and Mind (Vol. 5, pp. 115–134). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15931-3_7
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