{"id":436,"date":"2025-04-11T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/?p=436"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:21:58","slug":"vagueness-and-frege-by-marian-calborean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/vagueness-and-frege-by-marian-calborean\/","title":{"rendered":"VAGUENESS AND FREGE by MARIAN C\u0102LBOREAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.62229\/rrfaxv-2\/2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.62229\/rrfaxv-2\/2<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A constant of Frege\u2019s writing is his rejection of indeterminate predicates as found in natural language. This paper follows Frege\u2019s remarks on vagueness from the early &#8220;Begriffsschrift\u201d to his mature works, drawing brief parallels with the main contemporary theories of vagueness. I critically examine Frege\u2019s arguments for the inconsistency of natural language and argue that the inability to accommodate vagueness in his mature ontology is mainly due to heuristic rules of thumb which Frege took as essential, not to a deep problem in his fundamental apparatus.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Calborean.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Calborean<\/a>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Calborean.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.62229\/rrfaxv-2\/2 Abstract: A constant of Frege\u2019s writing is his rejection of indeterminate predicates as found in natural language. This paper follows Frege\u2019s remarks on vagueness from the early &#8220;Begriffsschrift\u201d to his mature works, drawing brief parallels with the main contemporary theories of vagueness. I critically examine Frege\u2019s arguments for the inconsistency of natural language&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/vagueness-and-frege-by-marian-calborean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[214,217,215,216],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marian-calborean","tag-frege","tag-indeterminateness","tag-precision","tag-vagueness","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}