Theories of Vagueness.

By: Keefe, RosannaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in PhilosophyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511151453Subject(s): Vagueness (Philosophy)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theories of VaguenessDDC classification: 153.8301 LOC classification: B105.V33 K44 2000Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The phenomena of vagueness -- 1. CENTRAL FEATURES OF VAGUE EXPRESSIONS -- 2. TYPE OF VAGUE EXPRESSIONS -- 3. VAGUENESS IN THE WORLD? -- 4. THEORIES OF VAGUENESS -- (i) The logic and semantics of vagueness -- (ii) The sorites paradox -- 5. THE 'DEFINITELY' OPERATOR -- 6. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS -- 2 How to theorise about vagueness -- 1. ESTABLISHING A REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 2. THE CONSTRAINTS -- (i) Classification of sentences and arguments -- (ii) Some theoretical constraints concerning language-use -- (iii) The extent of departure from classical logic -- 3. MODELS AND ARTEFACTS -- (i) The distinction -- (ii) Artefacts of a model -- (iii) Models as idealisations -- (iv) Uniqueness -- 3 The epistemic view of vagueness -- 1. THE THEORY -- 2. THE IGNORANCE CHARACTERISTIC OF VAGUENESS -- (i) Inexact knowledge -- (ii) Margin for error principles and vagueness -- (iii) Not knowing and not believing -- (iv) Williamson's margin for error principles -- (v) The sensitivity of meaning to use -- 3. HOW EXTENSIONS ARE DETERMINED -- 4 Between truth and falsity: many-valued logics -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TYE'S THREE-VALUED LOGIC -- 3. MACHINA'S DEGREE THEORY -- 4. THE TRUTH-VALUES -- 5. TRUTH-FUNCTIONALITY -- 6. DETAILED SEMANTICS OF THE CONNECTIVES -- 7. VALIDITY -- 8. TYE'S THEORY ASSESSED -- 9. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS, SHARP BOUNDARIES AND EXACT VALUES -- (i) Biting the bullet -- (ii) Assigning a range of values -- (iii) Vague metalanguages and iterated degrees of truth -- (iv) Tye's treatment of vague metalanguages -- (v) Instrumentalism about the assignment of degrees -- 5 Vagueness by numbers -- 1. MEASUREMENT THEORY -- 2. REPRESENTATION THEOREMS FOR VAGUENESS -- 3. UNIQUENESS THEOREMS AND TYPES OF SCALES APPROPRIATE TO VAGUENESS.
4. DIAGNOSING THE ERROR -- 6 The pragmatic account of vagueness -- 1. LEWIS'S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND THE PRAGMATIC ACCOUNT -- 2. CONVENTIONS INVOLVING CLUSTERS OF LANGUAGES -- 3. THE VAGUE COMMUNAL LANGUAGE -- 7 Supervaluationism -- 1. THE THEORY -- (i) Borderline cases -- (ii) Semantic indecision and ambiguity -- (iii) Precisifications of different kinds of expression -- (iv) The range of precisifications -- (v) Compound sentences -- (vi) The history of supervaluationism -- 2. SOME FURTHER DETAILS OF FINE'S THEORY -- 3. COMPARATIVES, DEGREES AND CONTEXT-DEPENDENCE -- 4. SUPERVALUATIONISM AND ITS LOGIC -- 5. SEMANTIC ANOMALIES -- 6. THE ROLE OF PRECISIFICATIONS -- 7. ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS WITHIN A FRAMEWORK OF SPECIFICATIONS -- (i) Burgess and Humberstone -- (ii) Hyde's subvaluationism -- (iii) Many-valued supervaluationist accounts -- 8 Truth is super-truth -- 1. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS AND VAGUE METALANGUAGES -- 2. QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS -- 3. TRUTH AND THE (T) SCHEMA -- References -- Index.
Summary: A powerful comparative study of the main theories of vagueness, first published in 2000.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The phenomena of vagueness -- 1. CENTRAL FEATURES OF VAGUE EXPRESSIONS -- 2. TYPE OF VAGUE EXPRESSIONS -- 3. VAGUENESS IN THE WORLD? -- 4. THEORIES OF VAGUENESS -- (i) The logic and semantics of vagueness -- (ii) The sorites paradox -- 5. THE 'DEFINITELY' OPERATOR -- 6. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS -- 2 How to theorise about vagueness -- 1. ESTABLISHING A REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 2. THE CONSTRAINTS -- (i) Classification of sentences and arguments -- (ii) Some theoretical constraints concerning language-use -- (iii) The extent of departure from classical logic -- 3. MODELS AND ARTEFACTS -- (i) The distinction -- (ii) Artefacts of a model -- (iii) Models as idealisations -- (iv) Uniqueness -- 3 The epistemic view of vagueness -- 1. THE THEORY -- 2. THE IGNORANCE CHARACTERISTIC OF VAGUENESS -- (i) Inexact knowledge -- (ii) Margin for error principles and vagueness -- (iii) Not knowing and not believing -- (iv) Williamson's margin for error principles -- (v) The sensitivity of meaning to use -- 3. HOW EXTENSIONS ARE DETERMINED -- 4 Between truth and falsity: many-valued logics -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TYE'S THREE-VALUED LOGIC -- 3. MACHINA'S DEGREE THEORY -- 4. THE TRUTH-VALUES -- 5. TRUTH-FUNCTIONALITY -- 6. DETAILED SEMANTICS OF THE CONNECTIVES -- 7. VALIDITY -- 8. TYE'S THEORY ASSESSED -- 9. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS, SHARP BOUNDARIES AND EXACT VALUES -- (i) Biting the bullet -- (ii) Assigning a range of values -- (iii) Vague metalanguages and iterated degrees of truth -- (iv) Tye's treatment of vague metalanguages -- (v) Instrumentalism about the assignment of degrees -- 5 Vagueness by numbers -- 1. MEASUREMENT THEORY -- 2. REPRESENTATION THEOREMS FOR VAGUENESS -- 3. UNIQUENESS THEOREMS AND TYPES OF SCALES APPROPRIATE TO VAGUENESS.

4. DIAGNOSING THE ERROR -- 6 The pragmatic account of vagueness -- 1. LEWIS'S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND THE PRAGMATIC ACCOUNT -- 2. CONVENTIONS INVOLVING CLUSTERS OF LANGUAGES -- 3. THE VAGUE COMMUNAL LANGUAGE -- 7 Supervaluationism -- 1. THE THEORY -- (i) Borderline cases -- (ii) Semantic indecision and ambiguity -- (iii) Precisifications of different kinds of expression -- (iv) The range of precisifications -- (v) Compound sentences -- (vi) The history of supervaluationism -- 2. SOME FURTHER DETAILS OF FINE'S THEORY -- 3. COMPARATIVES, DEGREES AND CONTEXT-DEPENDENCE -- 4. SUPERVALUATIONISM AND ITS LOGIC -- 5. SEMANTIC ANOMALIES -- 6. THE ROLE OF PRECISIFICATIONS -- 7. ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS WITHIN A FRAMEWORK OF SPECIFICATIONS -- (i) Burgess and Humberstone -- (ii) Hyde's subvaluationism -- (iii) Many-valued supervaluationist accounts -- 8 Truth is super-truth -- 1. HIGHER-ORDER VAGUENESS AND VAGUE METALANGUAGES -- 2. QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS -- 3. TRUTH AND THE (T) SCHEMA -- References -- Index.

A powerful comparative study of the main theories of vagueness, first published in 2000.

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