Vagueness / Timothy Williamson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Williamson, Timothy.

Series:

• Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm))
• Problems of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Vagueness (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xiii, 325 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When did Rembrandt get old? Such questions eventually lead us to the problem of vagueness. Williamson traces its history, questions conventional theories and defends the realist view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance.

Contents:

• chapter Introduction
• chapter 1 The early history of sorites paradoxes
• chapter 2 The ideal of precision
• chapter 3 The rehabilitation of vagueness
• chapter 4 Many-valued logic and degrees of truth
• chapter 5 Supervaluations
• chapter 6 Nihilism
• chapter 7 Vagueness as ignorance
• chapter 8 Inexact knowledge
• chapter 9 Vagueness in the world.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index.

ISBN:

• 1-134-77017-0
• 9786610020065
• 1-134-77018-9
• 1-280-02006-7
• 0-203-01426-X

OCLC:

55101979