Vagueness (Paperback, Revised)

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a form of ignorance - there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we can never know exactly which one it is.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Problems of Philosophy
Release date:	March 1996
First published:	1994
Authors:	Timothy Williamson
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-13980-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN:	0-415-13980-5
Barcode:	9780415139809

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