Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic

✍ Scribed by Dietz, Richard;Moruzzi, Sebastiano

Publisher: OUP Oxford
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 599
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.;Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. It is highly controversial what the nature of vagueness is - a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or rather a feature of reality itself? May even relations like identity or parthood be affected by vagueness? Sorites arguments suggest that vague terms are either inconsistent or have a sharp boundary. The account we give of such paradoxes plays a pivotal role for ourunderstanding of natural languages. If our reasoning involves any vague concepts, is it safe from contradiction? Do.

✦ Table of 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 Shade13 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 SupervaluationismVI: 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
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