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Vagueness and Degrees of Truth (Paperback)
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Vagueness and Degrees of Truth (Paperback)
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Nicholas J. J. Smith argues that an adequate account of vagueness
must involve degrees of truth. The basic idea of degrees of truth
is that while some sentences are true and some are false, others
possess intermediate truth values: they are truer than the false
sentences, but not as true as the true ones. This idea is
immediately appealing in the context of vagueness-yet it has fallen
on hard times in the philosophical literature, with existing
degree-theoretic treatments of vagueness facing apparently
insuperable objections. Smith seeks to turn the tide in favour of a
degree-theoretic treatment of vagueness, by motivating and
defending the basic idea that truth can come in degrees. He argues
that no theory of vagueness that does not countenance degrees of
truth can be correct, and develops a new degree-theoretic treatment
of vagueness-fuzzy plurivaluationism-that solves the problems
plaguing earlier degree theories.
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