Vagueness : a reader / edited by Rosanna Keefe and Peter Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keefe, Rosanna, editor.

Smith, Peter, 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vagueness (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 352 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1996]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 borderline cases (arguably, someone may be neither tall nor not tall); and they lack well-defined extensions (there is no sharp boundary between tall people and the rest). The phenomenon of vagueness poses a fundamental challenge to classical logic and semantics, which assumes that propositions are either true or false and that extensions are determinate.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-345) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Vagueness.

ISBN:

9780262276887

0262276887

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