238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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The topic of vagueness re-emerged in the twentieth century from relative obscurity. It deals with the phenomenon in natural language that manifests itself in apparent semantic indeterminacy - the indeterminacy, for example, that arises when asked to draw the line between the tall and non-tall, or the drunk and the sober. An associated paradox emphasises the challenging nature of the phenomenon,... Read more
Contents: Preface; Vagueness; Russell's representational theory; Descriptive representationalism; Going non-classical: gaps and gluts; Ontological vagueness; Vague individuation and counting; The logic of vagueness; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dominic Hyde is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia.
’Hyde's compelling, well documented and argued book is a definite gain in making "the streets of speculation just a little bit safer for the philosophers of tomorrow" (Sorensen, 1989) even though he does that not by banishing it, but by placing speculation into quite a different and complementing logical-ontological limelights.’ Appraisal
