London and New York: Routledge (1994)
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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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Keywords | Vagueness (Philosophy |
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Reprint years | 1996, 2002 |
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Call number | BC199.V34.W55 1996 |
ISBN(s) | 9780415033312 0415033314 9780415139809 9780203014264 0754620808 0415139805 |
DOI | 10.2307/2953810 |
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