Stewart Shapiro

Vagueness in Context

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Produktbeschreibung

Stewart Shapiro develops an account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language. The key feature is that extensions of vague terms vary in the course of conversations and, in some cases, a speaker can go either way without sinning against the meaning of the words or the non-linguistic facts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780199544783
• ISBN-10: 0199544786
• Artikelnr.: 23604643

Autorenporträt

Stewart Shapiro is O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University at Newark and is a Professorial Fellow at the Arché Research Centre at the University of St.Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The nature of vagueness: Humpty Dumpty gets his due
2: Interlude: the place and role of model theory
3: A start on model theory
4: Connectives, quantifiers, logic
5: Refinements and extensions I: so-called 'higher-order vagueness'
6: Refinements and extensions II: objects, identity, and abstracts
7: Metaphysical matters: language, the WORLD, and objectivity
Appendix: Waismann on open-texture and analyticity