| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) |
| Series |
Problems of philosophy |
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Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The early history of sorites paradoxes -- chapter 2 The ideal of precision -- chapter 3 The rehabilitation of vagueness -- chapter 4 Many-valued logic and degrees of truth -- chapter 5 Supervaluations -- chapter 6 Nihilism -- chapter 7 Vagueness as ignorance -- chapter 8 Inexact knowledge -- chapter 9 Vagueness in the world |
| Summary |
Vagueness provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches such as fuzzy logic. He illustrates the problems with views which have taken the position that standard logic and formal semantics do not apply to vague language, and defends the controversial realistic view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance--that there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we cannot know which one it is |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Vagueness (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Vagueness (Philosophy)
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Vague (philosophie)
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Philosophie du langage.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
020301426X |
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9780203014264 |
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9780415033312 |
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0415033314 |
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9780415139809 |
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0415139805 |
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9781134770175 |
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1134770170 |
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9786610020065 |
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661002006X |
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1134770189 |
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9781134770182 |
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1280020067 |
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9781280020063 |
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