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Vagueness /
Vagueness provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Colección: | Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Vagueness provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches such as fuzzy logic. He illustrates the problems with views which have taken the position that standard logic and formal semantics do not apply to vague language, and defends the controversial realistic view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance--that there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we cannot know which one it is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index. |
| ISBN: | 020301426X 9780203014264 9780415033312 0415033314 9780415139809 0415139805 9781134770175 1134770170 9786610020065 661002006X 1134770189 9781134770182 1280020067 9781280020063 |