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Single Idea 9767

[from 'Vagueness, Truth and Logic' by Kit Fine, in 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness ]

Full Idea

A vague sentence is (roughly stated) true if and only if it is true for all ways of making it completely precise (the 'super-truth theory').

Gist of Idea

A vague sentence is only true for all ways of making it completely precise

Source

Kit Fine (Vagueness, Truth and Logic [1975], Intro)

Book Reference

'Vagueness: a Reader', ed/tr. Keefe,R /Smith,P [MIT 1999], p.119


A Reaction

Intuitively this sounds quite promising. Personally I think we should focus on the 'proposition' rather than the 'sentence' (where fifteen sentences might be needed before we can agree on the one proposition).