Timothy Williamson

Vagueness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vagueness is the first comprehensive treatment of this increasingly important topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Students in these areas and researchers in artificial intelligence and linguistics will find its non-technical approach invaluable. For the technically-minded, an appendix shows how the treatment can be formalized within the framework of epistemic logic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780415033312
• ISBN-10: 0415033314
• Artikelnr.: 21033745

Autorenporträt

Williamson, Timothy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. The Early History of Sorites Paradoxes 2. The Ideal
of Precision 3. The Rehabilitation of Vagueness 4. Many-Valued Logic and
Degrees of Truth 5. Supervaluations 6. Nihilism 7. Vagueness as Ignorance
8. Inexact Knowledge 9. Vagueness in the World Appendix: The Logic of
Clarity Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'Nothing should henceforth be written on vagueness which fails to learn from this book. It should be read not only for its contribution to vagueness, but also for what it says about knowledge; for the purity of its style ... and as an example of philosophy at its very best.' - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

'This is a marvellous book. Not for a long time have I read anything which was at the same time so easy and pleasant to read and so stimulating.' - Philosophical Books