Vagueness

By: Timothy Williamson

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Hardcover | 7 July 1994 | Edition Number 1

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340 Pages

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18

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13

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21.59 x 13.97 x 2.24

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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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""Vagueness provides a complete and lucid account of one of the hottest topics in philosophy of language and philosophy of logic . . . Williamson constructs a broader and broader theory of vagueness sensitive to the constraints and resources of contemporary philosophy of language. His efforts drive epistemicism to a new level of depth and distinction." -Roy Sorensen, New York University

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