4. Vagueness In the last lecture. I said something that may have surprised you. I said it would be a disaster for all of us. If we got rid of all of the un-clarity in our language and our thought in today's lecture, I want to begin to explain why that's true and I'll focus on the kind of un-clarity that's involved in vagueness. [00:00:25] Now. Remember vagueness. Is just lack of precision. It's just imprecision. So an example of bigness would be this suppose you asked me how many bones there are in the human skeleton. And I say there are about 200, well, that's a vague answer. It's true that there are about 200 bones in the human body. But it's not a precise answer. [00:00:53] I believe a precise answer would be 212. Maybe that's not quite accurate, but even if it's wrong, it's still a precise number 212 is a precise number. It's a precise answer to the question. How many bones are there in the human body? It might be a wrong answer. It might be an inaccurate answer, but wheth...