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Cuts and Clouds : Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic.
Title:
Cuts and Clouds : Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic.
Author:
Dietz, Richard.
ISBN:
9780191573330
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (599 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: The Nature of Vagueness -- I: What is Vagueness? -- 1 A Metasemantic Account of Vagueness -- 2 The Possibility of Partial Definition -- 3 Vagueness and Second-Level Indeterminacy -- 4 Vagueness as Indeterminacy -- 5 Sorensen on Vagueness and Contradiction -- II: Vagueness in Reality -- 6 Vague Properties -- 7 Vagaries about Vagueness -- 8 Vagueness, Metaphysics, and Objectivity -- III: Tolerance and Paradox -- 9 Agnosticism and Vagueness -- 10 Vague Intensions: A Modest Marriage Proposal -- 11 This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundaries of Vague Terms -- 12 Perceptual Indiscriminability and the Concept of a Color Shade -- 13 The Sorites, Linguistic Preconceptions, and the Dual Picture of Vagueness -- 14 Vagueness and Central Gaps -- IV: Vagueness in Context -- 15 Hold the Context Fixed-Vagueness Still Remains -- 16 Saying More (or Less) Than One Thing -- 17 Vagueness as Semantic -- 18 How to Respond to Borderline Cases -- PART II: The Logic of Vagueness -- V: Supervaluationism -- 19 Supervaluationism and the Report of Vague Contents -- 20 Supervaluationism, Indirect Speech Reports, and Demonstratives -- 21 Scope Confusions and Unsatisfiable Disjuncts: Two Problems for Supervaluationism -- VI: Paraconsistent Logics -- 22 The Prospects of a Paraconsistent Response to Vagueness -- 23 Non-Transitive Identity -- VII: Many-Valued Logics -- 24 Identity and the Facts of the Matter -- 25 Fuzzy Epistemicism -- 26 Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps -- 27 Supernumeration: Vagueness and Numbers -- 28 Degree of Belief is Expected Truth Value -- VIII: Higher-Order Vagueness -- 29 Demoting Higher-Order Vagueness -- 30 The Illusion of Higher-Order Vagueness -- 31 Iterating Definiteness -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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Abstract:
Vagueness is a deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. Is it a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or a feature of reality itself? How can we reason with vague concepts? Cuts and Clouds presents the latest work towards an understanding of these puzzles about the nature and logic of vagueness.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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