Vagueness

Vagueness

by Fara, Delia Graff Williamson, Timothy

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Vagueness / edited by Delia Graff and Timothy Williamson.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2002.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate/Dartmouth
  • Place of Publication:Aldershot, Hants, England
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2002.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 508 pages : : illustrations.).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781315235158 (electronic bk), 1315235153 (electronic bk)
  • oclc:on1100468114
  • LC Classification:B105.V33
  • Dewey Decimal:160

Table of Contents

Pt. I. Nihilism. 1. There are no ordinary things. 2. On that which is not. 3. Nostalgia for the ordinary: comments on papers y Unger and Wheeler. 4. Sorites. 5. An argument for the vagueness of Vague -- pt. II. Observational predicates. 6. On the coherence of vague predicates. 7. Phenomenal colors and sorites. 8. Are vague predicates incoherent? -- pt. III. Degrees of truth. 9. Degrees of belief and degrees of truth. 10. Validity, uncertainty and vagueness -- pt. IV. Epistemicism. 11. The Sorites paradox. 12. What makes it a heap? 13. Hat-tricks and heaps -- pt. V. Higher-order vagueness. 14. Is there a higher-order vagueness? 15. Is higher-order vagueness coherent? 16. Wright and Sainsury on higher-order vagueness. 17. A note on the logic of higher-order vagueness. 18. On the structure of higher-order vagueness. 19. Why higher-order vagueness is a pseudo-problem. 20. Why the vague need not be higher-order vague? -- pt. VI. Contextualism. 21. The paradox of the heap. 22. The liar and Sorites paradoxes: toward a unified treatment. 23. Vagueness without paradox -- pt. VII. Intuitionism. 24. Vagueness and alternative logic. 25.Hairier than Putnam thought. 26. A quick read is a wrong …

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Subjects

Vague (Philosophie) Vagueness (Philosophy)

Writers

Fara, Delia Graff Williamson, Timothy

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