I-Puzzles Problems and Paradoxes.- One Conceptions of Vagueness.-
1.1 Frege's Metaphor and The Sorites Paradox.- 1.2 The Vehicle of
Vagueness.- 1.3 Something Else to do with Vagueness.- 1.4
Intensional and Extensional Vagueness.- 1.5 Commitments.- 1.6
Fregean Vagueness.- 1.7 The Evidence for Fregean Vagueness.- 2
Linguistic Behaviour.- 2.1 The Myths of Consensus and Determinacy.-
2.2 Statistical Regularities and Semantic Determinacy.- 2.3
Vagueness and Convention.- 2.4 Vagueness and Truth Theory.- 3
Approaches to Vagueness.- 3.1 Borderline Cases, Bivalence and
Higher Order Vagueness.- 3.2 Bivalence and Excluded Middle.- 3.3
Vagueness and Logic.- 3.4 Supervaluations.- (a) Specification
Spaces.- (b) External Penumbral Connexions and Uncertainty.- (c)
Internal Penumbral Connexions and the Sorites.- 3.5 Approaches to
Higher Order Vagueness.- (a) Fuzzy Logics.- (b) The Specification
Space Approach.- (c) The Generation of Higher Order Vagueness.-
II-The Sorites Paradox.- 4 The Paradox.- 4.1 The Incoherence
Thesis.- 4.2 Wright's Arguments for Tolerance.- 4.3 Versions of the
Paradox.- 4.4 An Empirical Assumption.- 4.5 Dummett's View of the
Paradox.- 4.6 Ad Hoc Stipulation and Inconsistent Rules.- 4.7
Causal Explanations of Consistency.- 4.8 Wright's Conclusions.- 5
Responses to the Paradox.- 5.1 The Elimination of Vagueness.- 5.2
Ideal Languages, Logic and Precision.- 5.3 Rejecting Common Sense.-
5.4 Rejecting the Induction Step.- 5.5 Rejecting the Principles of
Classical Logic.- 5.6 Austerity Measures.- 5.7 Paradigm Exemplars
and Knowledge of Tolerance Rules.- 5.8 Vagueness and Contextual
Disambiguation.- 6 A Solution to the Paradox.- 6.1 Tolerance
Principles and Pure Observationality.- 6.2 Counter-examples to
Tolerance.- 6.3 A Reply, and a Review of the Nature of the Sorites
Series.- 6.4 Revising Tolerance Rules.- 6.5 A Way Out of the
Paradox.- 6.6 Strict and Loose Tolerance Rules.- 6.7 A Parallel
with the Grue Paradox.- 7 Further Problems and Puzzles.- 7.1 Is
Indiscernibility Tolerant?.- 7.2 Is Indiscernibility Vague?.- 7.3
Inconsistency without Paradox.- 7.4 Patches in Pairs.- 7.5 The Size
of the Difference.- 7.6 A Review of the Criteria of Justification.-
7.7 Conceptual and Metaphysical Miracles.- 7.8 Vagueness and Pure
Observationality.- 8 Vagueness and Perception.- 8.1 A Puzzle about
Perception.- 8.2 Phenomenal Qualities and Observational
Predicates.- 8.3 Change of Aspect.- 8.4 Tolerance and
Observationality.- 8.5 Vagueness in Perception.- 9 Conclusions.-
9.1 The Induction Step and Continua in Nature.- 9.2 The Existence
of Fregean Vagueness.- 9.3 Constraints on Observer and Theorist.-
9.4 Fregean Vagueness, Loose Tolerance Rules and Undecidability.-
9.5 Vagueness as a Pragmatic Phenomenon.- 9.6 Tolerance and the
Actual Language Relation.- 9.7 Bivalence, Vagueness and Truth.- 9.8
Vagueness in Language and in Psychological Phenomena.- 9.9
Vagueness, Precision and Context-Dependence.- 9.10 Classification
Ranges.
General
Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Reason and Argument, v. 4 |
Release date: |
November 1991 |
First published: |
November 1991 |
Authors: |
Linda Burns
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Dimensions: |
240mm (L) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7923-1489-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
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LSN: |
0-7923-1489-1 |
Barcode: |
9780792314899 |
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