The Resource Vagueness, Timothy Williamson
Vagueness, Timothy Williamson
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The item Vagueness, Timothy Williamson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Vagueness provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches such as fuzzy logic. He illustrates the problems with views which have taken the position that standard logic and formal semantics do not apply to vague language, and defends the controversial realistic view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance--that there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we cannot know which one it is
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9786610020065
- Label
- Vagueness
- Title
- Vagueness
- Statement of responsibility
- Timothy Williamson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Vagueness provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches such as fuzzy logic. He illustrates the problems with views which have taken the position that standard logic and formal semantics do not apply to vague language, and defends the controversial realistic view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance--that there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we cannot know which one it is
- Cataloging source
- INU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williamson, Timothy
- Dewey number
- 160
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BC199.V34
- LC item number
- W55 1996eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Problems of philosophy
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Vagueness (Philosophy)
- PHILOSOPHY
- Vagueness (Philosophy)
- Vague (philosophie)
- Philosophie du langage
- Label
- Vagueness, Timothy Williamson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 70769329
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786610020065
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)70769329
- Label
- Vagueness, Timothy Williamson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 70769329
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786610020065
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)70769329
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