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Autore |
Williamson Timothy |
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Titolo |
Vagueness / / Timothy Williamson |
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New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
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1-134-77017-0 |
9786610020065 |
1-134-77018-9 |
1-280-02006-7 |
0-203-01426-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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