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Prolegomena to Salient-Similarity-Based Vague Predicate Logic

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Vagueness is a ubiquitous feature that we know from many expressions in natural languages. It can invite a serious problem: the Sorites Paradox. The aim of this paper is to proposed a new version of complete logic for vague predicates - salient-similarity-based vague predicate logic (SVPL) that can avoid the Sorites Paradox and give answers to all of the Semantic Question, the Epistemological Question and the Psychological Question given by Graff.

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  1. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Komazawa University, 1-23-1, Komazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 154-8525, Japan

    Satoru Suzuki

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  1. System Engineering Research Lab., CRIEPI, 2-11-1, Iwado Kita, 201-8511, Komae-shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Takashi Onada

  2. Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Science, Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, Otsuka 2-1-1, 112-8610, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

  3. Department of English, 4-4-25 Shibuya, Aoyama Gakuin University, 150-8366, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Elin McCready

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Suzuki, S. (2011). Prolegomena to Salient-Similarity-Based Vague Predicate Logic. In: Onada, T., Bekki, D., McCready, E. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25655-4_7

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