<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jan Štěpánek</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Impact of Using Multi-Dimensional and Combinatory Vague Terms on the Possibility of Formulating Sorites Paradoxes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Organon F</style></secondary-title><translated-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Impact of Using Multi-Dimensional and Combinatory Vague Terms on the Possibility of Formulating Sorites Paradoxes</style></translated-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Combinatory vagueness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">linear vagueness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">multi-dimensional vagueness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">paradox</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paradox of the Heap</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sorites</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">vagueness</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2014/1/185-198.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">185-198</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We cannot definitely determine precise boundaries of application of vague terms like “tall”. Since it is only a height of a person that determines whether that person is tall or not, we can count “tall” as an example of a linear vague term. That means that all objects in a range of significance of “tall” can be linearly ordered. Linear vague terms can be used to formulate three basic versions of the sorites paradox – the conditional sorites, the mathematical induction sorites, and the line-drawing sorites. In this paper I would like to explore a possibility of formulating sorites paradoxes with so called multi-dimensional and combinatory vague terms – terms for which it is impossible to create a linear ordering of all objects in their range of significance. Therefore, I will show which adjustments must be made and which simplifications we must accede to in order to formulate any version of the sorites paradox with multi-dimensional or combinatory vague terms. I will also show that only the conditional version of the sorites paradox can be construed with all three kinds of vague terms.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">State</style></work-type><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Articles</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">185198</style></custom3><custom5><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></custom5></record></records></xml>