Theories of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe.
Vague expressions, such as "heap," "red" and "child," proliferate throughout natural languages, and an increasing amount of philosophical attention is being directed at theories of the logic and semantics associated with them. In this book Rosanna Keefe explores the que...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Summary: | Vague expressions, such as "heap," "red" and "child," proliferate throughout natural languages, and an increasing amount of philosophical attention is being directed at theories of the logic and semantics associated with them. In this book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from theories of vagueness and how we should compare them. Her powerful and original study will be of interest to readers in philosophy of language and of mind, philosophical logic, epistemology and metaphysics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 051101032X 9780511010323 0511036922 9780511036927 9780521650670 0521650674 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |