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Theories of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe.

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English
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing philosophical attention, and in this timely book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from an account of vagueness and how we should assess rival theories. Her discussion ranges widely and comprehensively over the main theories of vagueness and their supporting arguments, and she offers a powerful and original defence of a form
Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The phenomena of vagueness""; ""1. CENTRAL FEATURES OF VAGUE EXPRESSIONS""; ""2. TYPE OF VAGUE EXPRESSIONS""; ""3. VAGUENESS IN THE WORLD?""; ""4. THEORIES OF VAGUENESS""; ""(i) The logic and semantics of vagueness""; ""(ii) The sorites paradox""; ""5. THE 'DEFINITELY' OPERATOR""; ""6. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS""; ""2 How to theorise about vagueness""; ""1. ESTABLISHING A REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM""; ""2. THE CONSTRAINTS""
  • ""(i) Classification of sentences and arguments""""(ii) Some theoretical constraints concerning language-use""; ""(iii) The extent of departure from classical logic""; ""3. MODELS AND ARTEFACTS""; ""(i) The distinction""; ""(ii) Artefacts of a model""; ""(iii) Models as idealisations""; ""(iv) Uniqueness""; ""3 The epistemic view of vagueness""; ""1. THE THEORY""; ""2. THE IGNORANCE CHARACTERISTIC OF VAGUENESS""; ""(i) Inexact knowledge""; ""(ii) Margin for error principles and vagueness""; ""(iii) Not knowing and not believing""; ""(iv) Williamson's margin for error principles""
  • ""(v) The sensitivity of meaning to use""""3. HOW EXTENSIONS ARE DETERMINED""; ""4 Between truth and falsity: many-valued logics""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. TYE'S THREE-VALUED LOGIC""; ""3. MACHINA'S DEGREE THEORY""; ""4. THE TRUTH-VALUES""; ""5. TRUTH-FUNCTIONALITY""; ""6. DETAILED SEMANTICS OF THE CONNECTIVES""; ""7. VALIDITY""; ""8. TYE'S THEORY ASSESSED""; ""9. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS, SHARP BOUNDARIES AND EXACT VALUES""; ""(i) Biting the bullet""; ""(ii) Assigning a range of values""; ""(iii) Vague metalanguages and iterated degrees of truth""
  • ""(iv) Tye's treatment of vague metalanguages""""(v) Instrumentalism about the assignment of degrees""; ""5 Vagueness by numbers""; ""1. MEASUREMENT THEORY""; ""2. REPRESENTATION THEOREMS FOR VAGUENESS""; ""3. UNIQUENESS THEOREMS AND TYPES OF SCALES APPROPRIATE TO VAGUENESS""; ""4. DIAGNOSING THE ERROR""; ""6 The pragmatic account of vagueness""; ""1. LEWIS'S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND THE PRAGMATIC ACCOUNT""; ""2. CONVENTIONS INVOLVING CLUSTERS OF LANGUAGES""; ""3. THE VAGUE COMMUNAL LANGUAGE""; ""7 Supervaluationism""; ""1. THE THEORY""; ""(i) Borderline cases""
  • ""(ii) Semantic indecision and ambiguity""""(iii) Precisifications of different kinds of expression""; ""(iv) The range of precisifications""; ""(v) Compound sentences""; ""(vi) The history of supervaluationism""; ""2. SOME FURTHER DETAILS OF FINE'S THEORY""; ""3. COMPARATIVES, DEGREES AND CONTEXT-DEPENDENCE""; ""4. SUPERVALUATIONISM AND ITS LOGIC""; ""5. SEMANTIC ANOMALIES""; ""6. THE ROLE OF PRECISIFICATIONS""; ""7. ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS WITHIN A FRAMEWORK OF SPECIFICATIONS""; ""(i) Burgess and Humberstone""; ""(ii) Hyde's subvaluationism""; ""(iii) Many-valued supervaluationist accounts""
  • ""8 Truth is super-truth""
Notes:
  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
  • Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
  • 0-511-05215-4
  • 0-511-15145-4
  • 0-511-01032-X
OCLC:
50650822

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