| 书目名称 | Vagueness as Arbitrariness |
| 副标题 | Outline of a Theory |
| 编辑 | Sagid Salles |
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| 概述 | Presents a clear formulation of the problem of vagueness.Proposes a definition of linguistic imprecision.Critically reviews the current theories of vagueness.Proposes a new theory of vagueness: the Th |
| 丛书名称 | Synthese Library |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This book proposes a new solution to the problem of vagueness. There are several different ways of addressing this problem and no clear agreement on which one is correct. The author proposes that it should be understood as the problem of explaining vague predicates in a way that systematizes six intuitions about the phenomenon and satisfies three criteria of adequacy for an ideal theory of vagueness. ..The third criterion, which is called the “criterion of precisification”, is the most controversial one. It is based on the intuition that a predicate is vague only if it is imprecise. The author considers some different definitions of linguistic imprecision, proposing that a predicate is imprecise if and only if there is no sharp boundary between objects to which its application yields some particular truth-value and objects to which its application does not yield that truth-value. ..The volume critically reviews the current theories of vagueness and proposes a new one, the Theory of Vagueness as Arbitrariness, which defines a vague predicate as an arbitrary predicate that must be precisified in order to contribute to a sentence that has truth-conditions. The main advantages of this |
| 出版日期 | Book 2021 |
| 关键词 | Vagueness; Arbitrariness; Vague predicates; Theories of vagueness; Thesis of Arbitrariness; Principle of |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66781-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-66783-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-66781-8Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 |
| issn_series | 0166-6991 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |
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