Theories of Vagueness

By: Rosanna Keefe, Ernest Sosa (Editor), Jonathan Dancy (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 September 2000

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Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing philosophical attention, and in this timely book Rosanna Keefe explores the questions of what we should want from an account of vagueness and how we should assess rival theories. Her discussion ranges widely and comprehensively over the main theories of vagueness and their supporting arguments, and she offers a powerful and original defence of a form of supervaluationism, a theory that requires almost no deviation from standard logic yet can accommodate the lack of sharp boundaries to vague predicates and deal with the paradoxes of vagueness in a methodologically satisfying way. Her study will be of particular interest to readers in philosophy of language and of mind, philosophical logic, epistemology and metaphysics.

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"...an impressively erudite, thorough, well argued, and well written book. Keefe presents a lot of difficult material in a lucid and well-organized fashion, and her criticisms of other treatments of vagueness are largely on target." The Philosophical Review "...a clearly written introduction to the prominent theories of vagueness...a book well worth owning." Philosophy in Review

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