There is something about the logic of procrastination which puts me in mind of the sorites paradox. Just as it seems absurd to suppose that one dollar could make the difference between rich and not-rich, so too does it seem absurd to think that "five more minutes" could make-or-break one's ability to complete a given task. And yet, just as certainly in the one case as in the other, it seems intuitively obvious that there must be some dividing line between rich and not-rich, plenty of time an...| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
Vagueness and mass nouns have been unconquerable land for the logic founded by Aristotle, mathematized by Boole, and developed by Frege and others since the end of the nineteenth century—a logic I …| Blue Labyrinths
