Zusammenfassung
1 gunshot is not a war, 2 gunshots are not a war… are 1 million gunshots a war?There
is no such thing so investigated as war and, at the same time, still so outcasted theoretically.
Ambiguity, vagueness and logical conundrums lay unsolved in the very hardcore of the several
theories that considered war from a general perspective and, then, philosophically committed
explicitly or implicitly. It is not the experience and observational data we lack but the general
ability to generalize and expand our knowledge beyond what we can directly observe empirically
and historically. Sorites arguments are everywhere in war theories: vagueness and ambiguities of
many shapes inform the literature. Only a philosophical account of war can solve some of those issues: an ontology of war is needed to bring light into the heart of darkness.
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