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Vagueness

By Timothy Williamson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0415033314, 9780415033312
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3225864 bytes)
Series
The Problems of Philosophy: Their Past and Present
Pages
325\340
Time added
2014-01-07 03:27:42

Description

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a form of ignorance - there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we can never know exactly which one it is.

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