Vagueness

• Acknowledgements

• Introduction: theories of vagueness

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• Overview

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• The epistemic view

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• Supervaluationism

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• Many-valued logic and degree theories

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• Ontic vagueness On the sorites

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• Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 7.441

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• Galen, On Medical Experience 16.117.32

• Cicero, Academica 2.92943

• Vagueness

• Vagueness: an exercise in logical analysis

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• Introduction

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• Vagueness described

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• Location of the fringe

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• Is vagueness subjective?

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• Definition of the consistency-profile

• Vagueness and logic

• Truth and vagueness

• The sorites paradox

• Wang's paradox

• Vagueness, truth and logic

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• The truth-value approach

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• An alternative framework

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• The super-truth theory

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• The logic of vagueness

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• Higher-order vagueness

• Language-mastery and the sorites paradox

• Truth, belief and vagueness

• Further reflections on the sorites paradox

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• The governing view and the sorites paradox

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• Accepting the paradox

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• Resolving the paradox by jettison of the first claim of the governing view

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• Tolerance and observationality

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• Higher-order vagueness and the No Sharp Boundaries paradox

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• The governing view and the major premises

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• Conclusion

• Concepts without boundaries

• Vagueness and ignorance

• Sorites paradoxes and the semantics of vagueness

• Vagueness by degrees

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• The analogy

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• Validity

• 3
• Verity and the logical constants

• 4
• Delivering the goods

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• Should we accept the package?

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• Why verity is not credence

• Can there be vague objects?

• Vague identity: Evans misunderstood

• Worldly indeterminacy of identity

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• Background

• 2
• Abstracts and the Evans argument (and its successors)

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• Describing the theory

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• Semantics

• 5
• How many cats are there?

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• Indeterminate naming

• References

• Index