Vagueness: A Reader - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262112256 ISBN 13 : 9780262112253

Editeur : MIT Press, 1997

Synopsis

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. Another striking problem to which vagueness gives rise is the sorites paradox. If you remove one grain from a heap of sand, surely you must be left with a heap. Yet apply this principle repeatedly as you remove grains one by one, and you end up, absurdly, with a solitary grain that counts as a heap. This anthology collects papers in the field. After an introduction that surveys the field, the essays form four groups, starting with some historically notable pieces. The 1970s saw an explosion of interest in vagueness, and the second group of essays reprints classic papers from this period. The following group of papers represent current work on the logic and semantics of vagueness. The essays in the final group are contributions to the continuing debate about vague objects and vague identity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The papers collected in this volume represent the best recent work on the logic and semantics of vagueness. The essays in the final group are contributions to the continuing debate about vague objects and vague identity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262112256
• ISBN 13: 9780262112253
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Keefe Rosanna, Smith Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible