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Cuts and Clouds - Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,843
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Cuts and Clouds - Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic (Hardcover, New): Richard Dietz, Sebastiano Moruzzi

Cuts and Clouds - Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic (Hardcover, New)

Richard Dietz, Sebastiano Moruzzi

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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 our understanding of natural languages. If our reasoning involves any vague concepts, is it safe from contradiction? Do vague concepts really lack any sharp boundary? If not, why are we reluctant to accept the existence of any sharp boundary for them? And what rules of inference can we validly apply, if we reason in vague terms? Cuts and Clouds presents the latest work towards a clearer understanding of these old puzzles about the nature and logic of vagueness. The collection offers a stimulating series of original essays on these and related issues by some of the world's leading experts.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2010
First published: April 2010
Editors: Richard Dietz • Sebastiano Moruzzi
Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957038-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Analytical & linguistic philosophy
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LSN: 0-19-957038-8
Barcode: 9780199570386

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