Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (4-5):803-835 (2016)
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What kind of semantics should someone who accepts the epistemicist theory of vagueness defended in Timothy Williamson’s Vagueness (1994) give a definiteness operator? To impose some interesting constraints on acceptable answers to this question, I will assume that the object language also contains a metaphysical necessity operator and a metaphysical actuality operator. I will suggest that the answer is to be found by working within a three-dimensional model theory. I will provide sketches of two ways of extracting an epistemicist semantics from that model theory, one of which I will find to be more plausible than the other.
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Keywords | Vagueness Modality Epistemicism Timothy Williamson Indexicals Formal semantics Sorites paradox Indeterminacy Borderline cases Possible worlds semantics |
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DOI | 10.1080/00455091.2016.1201878 |
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