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Vagueness
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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 approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a form of ignorance - there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we can never know exactly which one it is.
Taylor and Francis; January 2002
340 pages; ISBN 9781134770182
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Subject categories
- Academic > Logic > Philosophical logic > Special topics > Vagueness (Philosophy)
- Academic > Logic > Philosophical logic > History
- Academic > Philosophy > Philosophical logic > Special topics > Vagueness (Philosophy)
- Academic > Philosophy > Philosophical logic > History
- Philosophy > Metaphysics
- Philosophy > Epistemology
- Philosophy > Logic
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics
- Social Science
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020301426X
9780203014264
9780415033312
9781134770175
9781134770182

