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- catalog abstract ""Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing philosophical attention, and in this timely book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from an account of vagueness and how we should assess rival theories. Her discussion ranges widely and comprehensively over the main theories of vagueness and their supporting arguments, and she offers a powerful and original defence of a form of supervaluationism, a theory that requires almost no deviation from standard logic yet can accommodate the lack of sharp boundaries to vague predicates and deal with the paradoxes of vagueness in a methodologically satisfying way. Her study will be of particular interest to readers in philosophy of language and of mind, philosophical logic, epistemology and metaphysics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11992818.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing philosophical attention, and in this timely book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from an account of vagueness and how we should assess rival theories.".
- catalog description "Her discussion ranges widely and comprehensively over the main theories of vagueness and their supporting arguments, and she offers a powerful and original defence of a form of supervaluationism, a theory that requires almost no deviation from standard logic yet can accommodate the lack of sharp boundaries to vague predicates and deal with the paradoxes of vagueness in a methodologically satisfying way. Her study will be of particular interest to readers in philosophy of language and of mind, philosophical logic, epistemology and metaphysics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The phenomena of vagueness -- How to theorise about vagueness -- The epistemic view of vagueness -- Between truth and falsity: many-valued logics -- Vagueness by numbers -- The pragmatic account of vagueness -- Supervaluationism -- Truth is super-truth.".
- catalog extent "xii, 233 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521650674 (hardcover)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in philosophy".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "160 21".
- catalog subject "B105.V33 K44 2000".
- catalog subject "Vagueness (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "The phenomena of vagueness -- How to theorise about vagueness -- The epistemic view of vagueness -- Between truth and falsity: many-valued logics -- Vagueness by numbers -- The pragmatic account of vagueness -- Supervaluationism -- Truth is super-truth.".
- catalog title "Theories of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe.".
- catalog type "text".