Vagueness

It was Friday afternoon, I’d had a long week, so we were rather vague about vagueness. However, after a while some of us got quite excited (especially Will) about some of the issues this threw up. 

My purpose, (yes I did have a purpose, even if it was a vague one) was twofold: 

Firstly I wanted to alert you to the problem of ‘slippery’ language: how difficult it is to find the kind of precision and logic that mathematics seems to have. And secondly I wanted to edge towards the idea, popular amongst many contemporary, philosophers, that meaning is socially constructed. That was why we agreed what a heap of sand was between us. What we failed to do was work whether I was bald, or not.