Single Idea 18840

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence]

Full Idea

I do not regard Bivalence, when applied to vague statements, as an intuitively compelling principle which we ought to try to preserve.

Gist of Idea

When faced with vague statements, Bivalence is not a compelling principle

Source

Ian Rumfitt (The Boundary Stones of Thought [2015], 8.7)

Book Reference

Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.261


A Reaction

The point of Rumfitt's book is to defend classical logic despite failures of bivalence. He also cites undecidable concepts such as the Continuum Hypothesis.