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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824347603321

Autore

Williamson Timothy

Titolo

Vagueness / / Timothy Williamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-77017-0

9786610020065

1-134-77018-9

1-280-02006-7

0-203-01426-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 325 p

Collana

Problems of philosophy

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Vagueness (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The early history of sorites paradoxes -- chapter 2 The ideal of precision -- chapter 3 The rehabilitation of vagueness -- chapter 4 Many-valued logic and degrees of truth -- chapter 5 Supervaluations -- chapter 6 Nihilism -- chapter 7 Vagueness as ignorance -- chapter 8 Inexact knowledge -- chapter 9 Vagueness in the world.

Sommario/riassunto

When did Rembrandt get old? Such questions eventually lead us to the problem of vagueness. Williamson traces its history, questions conventional theories and defends the realist view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance.