%0 Journal Article
%T A Rational Approach to Soft Rationality
%A Moti Suess
%J Principia : an International Journal of Epistemology
%D 2011
%I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
%X Vagueness is commonly presented as natural language imprecise meaning that is analyzed as borderline cases and formalized in various ways by ¡®classical¡¯ theories of vagueness. A different approach to vagueness is presented here, adopting Dascal¡¯s notion of ¡®soft rationality¡¯ and interpreting it as the use of ¡®similarity¡¯ rather than ¡®analysis¡¯ for the understanding of natural language terms. Soft rationality is suggested as a theory of vagueness that remains within the realm of intensionality, rather than seeking a formalized extensional explanation to vagueness.
%K Abstraction
%K hard rationality
%K logic
%K reason
%K similarity
%K soft rationality
%K understanding
%K vagueness
%U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/1808-1711.2011v15n2p349/21048