Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.