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Vagueness and thought

By Andrew , Bacon

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780191780264, 019178026X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3975648 bytes)
Series
Oxford philosophical monographs
Edition
First edition
Pages
(xviii, 340 pages) : illustrations\361
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Vagueness (Philosophy)

Description

Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, explicated in terms of its role in thought. Part I: Background1: Non-Classical and Nihilistic Approaches2: Classical Approaches: An Overview of the Current Debate3: An Outline of a Theory of Propositional VaguenessPart II: Epistemological Matters4: Vagueness and Language5: Vagueness and Ignorance6: Vagueness and Evidence7: Probabilism, Assertion and Higher-order Vagueness8: Vagueness and Uncertainty9: Vagueness and Decision10: Vagueness and DesirePart III: Logical Matters11: Vague Propositions12: Vagueness and Precision13: Symmetry Semantics14: Vagueness and the World15: Vagueness and Modality16: Vague Objects17: Beyond Vagueness18: Appendices

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