Vague expressions, such as "heap," "red" and "child," proliferate throughout natural languages, and an increasing amount of philosophical attention is being directed at theories of the logic and semantics associated with them. In this book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from theories of vagueness and how we should compare them. Her powerful and original study will be of interest to readers in philosophy of language and of mind, philosophical logic, epistemology and metaphysics.
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"...an impressively erudite, thorough, well argued, and well written book. Keefe presents a lot of difficult material in a lucid and well-organized fashion, and her criticisms of other treatments of vagueness are largely on target." The Philosophical Review
"...a clearly written introduction to the prominent theories of vagueness...a book well worth owning." Philosophy in Review
"...a clearly written introduction to the prominent theories of vagueness...a book well worth owning." Philosophy in Review
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Vague expressions, such as 'heap', 'red' and 'child', proliferate throughout natural languages, and an increasing amount of philosophical attention is being directed at theories of the logic and semantics associated with them. In this book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from theories of vagueness and how we should compare them. Her powerful and original study will be of interest to readers in philosophy of language and of mind, philosophical logic, epistemology and metaphysics.
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The parties to the vigorous debates about vagueness largely agree about which predicates are vague: paradigm cases include 'tall', 'red', 'bald', 'heap', 'tadpole' and 'child'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
borderline case predications, conditional verity, sorites inductive premise, supervaluationist theory, penumbral truths, supervaluationist framework, vague metalanguage, degree theorist, borderline tall, admissible specifications, penumbral connections, sorites series, epistemic theorist, borderline borderline cases, margin for error principle, supervaluationist account, possible borderline cases, semantic indecision, vague predicates, epistemic view, sorites paradox, sorites argument, inexact knowledge, false simpliciter, true simpliciter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The parties to the vigorous debates about vagueness largely agree about which predicates are vague: paradigm cases include 'tall', 'red', 'bald', 'heap', 'tadpole' and 'child'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
borderline case predications, conditional verity, sorites inductive premise, supervaluationist theory, penumbral truths, supervaluationist framework, vague metalanguage, degree theorist, borderline tall, admissible specifications, penumbral connections, sorites series, epistemic theorist, borderline borderline cases, margin for error principle, supervaluationist account, possible borderline cases, semantic indecision, vague predicates, epistemic view, sorites paradox, sorites argument, inexact knowledge, false simpliciter, true simpliciter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Vagueness: A Reader by Rosanna Keefe on 4 pages
- Philosophical Perspectives, 5: Philosophy of Religion by James E. Tomberlin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mind, Language and Reality (Philosophical Papers Vol 2, Hilary Putnam ) by Hilary Putnam in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G. E. L. Owen by Malcolm Schofield on page 220
- Introduction to Metamathematics (Bibliotheca Mathematica) by S.C. Kleene in Back Matter
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- Transactions on Rough Sets I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on Rough Sets) on page 56
- Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing: 10th International Conference, RSFDGrC 2005, Regina, Canada, August 31 - September 3, ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Dominik Slezak on page 41
- Transactions on Rough Sets IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on Rough Sets) by James F. Peters on page 15
- on page 111
- Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames in Back Matter
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