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Author : Thomas T. Ballmer
Publisher : North Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Approaching Vagueness written by Thomas T. Ballmer and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1983 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy
ISBN 13 : 0197514952
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Vagueness written by Kit Fine and published by Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy. This book was released on 2020 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vagueness is a subject of long-standing interest in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic. Numerous accounts of vagueness have been proposed in the literature but there has been no general consensus on which, if any, should be be accepted. Kit Fine here presents a new theory of vagueness based on the radical hypothesis that vagueness is a "global" rather than a "local" phenomenon. In other words, according to Fine, the vagueness of an object or expression cannot properly be considered except in its relation to other objects or other expressions. He then applies the theory to a variety of topics in logic, metaphysics and epistemology, including the sorites paradox, the problem of personal identity, and the transparency of mental phenomenon. This is the inaugural volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, presenting lectures from the most important contemporary thinkers in the discipline.
Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134770189
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Vagueness written by Timothy Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Giuseppina Ronzitti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400703759
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Vagueness: A Guide written by Giuseppina Ronzitti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox, which exposes the various forms the paradox can take and some of the responses that have been pursued, the book proceeds with a chapter on vagueness and metaphysics, which covers important questions concerning vagueness that arise in connection with the deployment of certain key metaphysical notions. Subsequent chapters address the following: vagueness and logic, which discusses the sort of model theory that is suggested by the main, rival accounts of vagueness; vagueness and meaning, which focuses on contextualist, epistemicist, and indeterminist theories; vagueness and observationality; vagueness within linguistics, which focuses on approaches that take comparison classes into account; and the idea that vagueness in law is typically extravagant and that extravagant vagueness is a necessary feature of legal systems.
Author : Diana Raffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199915105
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Unruly Words written by Diana Raffman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed.
Author : Rosanna Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521650674
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Theories of Vagueness written by Rosanna Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful comparative study of the main theories of vagueness, first published in 2000.
Author : Geert Keil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198722370
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Vagueness in Psychiatry written by Geert Keil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of mental disorders. Yet, systematic approaches that take into account discussions about vagueness are rare. This volume is the first in the psychiatry/philosophy literature to tackle this problem.
Author : L. Burns
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401134944
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Vagueness written by L. Burns and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is in two parts. It began as a general investigation of vagueness in natural languages. The Sorites Paradox came to dominate the work however, and the second part of the book consists in an discussion ofthat puzzle and related problems. The first part contains a general discussion ofthe nature ofvagueness and its sources. I discuss various conceptions of vagueness in chapter 1 and outline some of the problems to do with the conception of vagueness as a linguistic phenomenon. The most interesting of these is the Sorites paradox, which occurs where natural languages exhibit a particular variety of borderline case vagueness. I discuss some sources of vagueness of the borderline case variety, and views of the relation between linguistic behaviour and languages which are vague in this sense. I argue in chapter 2 that these problems are not to be easily avoided by statistical averaging techniques or attempts to provide a mathematical model of consensus in linguistic usage. I also consider in chapter 3 various approaches to the problem of providing an adequate logic and semantics for vague natural languages, and argue against two currently popular approaches to vagueness. These are supervaluation accounts which attempt to provide precise semantic models for vague languages based on the notion of specification spaces, and attempts to replace the laws ofclassical logic with systems offuzzy logic.
Author : Vijay K. Bhatia
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039106530
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Vagueness in Normative Texts written by Vijay K. Bhatia and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normative texts are meant to be highly impersonal and decontextualised, yet at the same time they also deal with a range of human behaviour that is difficult to predict, which means they have to have a very high degree of determinacy on the one hand, and all-inclusiveness on the other. This poses a dilemma for the writer and interpreter of normative texts. The author of such texts must be determinate and vague at the same time, depending upon to what extent he or she can predict every conceivable contingency that may arise in the application of what he or she writes. The papers in this volume discuss important legal and linguistic aspects relating to the use of vagueness in legal drafting and demonstrate why such aspects are critical to our understanding of the way normative texts function.
Author : Galit Weidman Sassoon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004248587
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Vagueness, Gradability and Typicality written by Galit Weidman Sassoon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages offers an accessible yet engaging coverage of medieval European history and culture, c. 500-c. 1500, in a series of themed articles, taking an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311062639X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives written by Claudia Maienborn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.
Author : Roy A. Sorensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199271160
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Vagueness and Contradiction written by Roy A. Sorensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe? Epistemicists answer 'Yes!' They believe that any predicate that divides things divides them sharply. They solve the ancient sorites paradox by picturing vagueness as a kind of ignorance. The alternative solutions are radical. They either reject classical theorems or inference rules or reject our common sense view of what can exist. Epistemicists spare this central portion of our web of belief by challenging peripheral intuitions about the nature of language. So why is this continuation of the status quo so incredible? Why do epistemicists themselves have trouble believing their theory? In Vagueness and Contradiction Roy Sorensen traces our incredulity to linguistic norms that build upon our psychological tendencies to round off insignificant differences. These simplifying principles lead to massive inconsistency, rather like the rounding off errors of calculators with limited memory. English entitles speakers to believe each 'tolerance conditional' such as those of the form 'If n is small, then n + 1 is small.' The conjunction of these a priori beliefs entails absurd conditionals such as 'If 1 is small, then a billion is small.' Since the negation of this absurdity is an a priori truth, our a priori beliefs about small numbers are jointly inconsistent. One of the tolerance conditionals, at the threshold of smallness, must be an analytic falsehood that we are compelled to regard as a tautology. Since there are infinitely many analytic sorites arguments, Sorensen concludes that we are obliged to believe infinitely many contradictions. These contradictions are not specifically detectable. They are ineliminable, like the heat from a light bulb. Although the light bulb is not designed to produce heat, the heat is inevitably produced as a side-effect of illumination. Vagueness can be avoided by representational systems that make no concession to limits of perception, or memory,or testimony. But quick and rugged representational systems, such as natural languages, will trade 'rationality' for speed and flexibility. Roy Sorensen defends epistemicism in his own distinctive style, inventive and amusing. But he has some serious things to say about language and logic, about the way the world is and about our understanding of it.
Author : P. Égré
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230299318
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Vagueness and Language Use written by P. Égré and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110226618
Total Pages : 989 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Semantics. Volume 1 written by Claudia Maienborn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "SEMANTICS (MAIENBORN ET AL.) BD. 33.1 HSK E-BOOK".
Author : Dominic Hyde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351723731
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Sociative Logics and Their Applications written by Dominic Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. Richard Sylvan died in 1996, he had made contributions to many areas of philosophy, such as, relevant and paraconsistent logic, Meinongianism and metaphysics and environmental ethics. One of his "trademarks" was the taking up of unpopular views and defending them. To Richard Sylvan ideas were important, wether they were his or not. This is a book of ideas, based on a collection of work found after his death, a chance for readers to see his vision of his projects. This collected works represents material drafted between 1982 and 1996, and the theme is that a small band of logics, namely pararelevant logics, offer solutions to many problems, puzzles and paradoxes in the philosophy of science.
Author : Catherine Atherton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521441391
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Stoics on Ambiguity written by Catherine Atherton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-21 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Stoic work on ambiguity.
Author : Daniel Altshuler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487297
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Linguistics Meets Philosophy written by Daniel Altshuler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With input from a team of scholars, this book brings together linguistics and philosophy, empowering new conversations in the process.
