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Vagueness
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Timothy Williamson
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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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
Vagueness
Language: en
Pages: 121
Authors: Kit Fine
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"The book is about the problem of vagueness. It begins by discussing some of the existing views on vagueness and then explains why they have not been thought to
Unruly Words
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Diana Raffman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According t
Vagueness
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Rosanna Keefe
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Vagueness is currently the subject of vigorous debate in the philosophy of logic and language. Vague terms-such as "tall", "red", "bald", and "tadpole" -- have
Vagueness: A Guide
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Giuseppina Ronzitti
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-03 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapt