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