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Vagueness: A Guide
Giuseppina Ronzitti
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Description for Vagueness: A Guide
Hardback. This volume analyzes how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. Topics include vagueness and metaphysics, vagueness and logic, vagueness and linguistics, and vagueness and law. Editor(s): Ronzitti, Giuseppina. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox, which exposes the various forms the paradox can take and some of the responses that have been pursued, the book proceeds with a chapter on vagueness and metaphysics, which covers important questions concerning vagueness that arise in connection with the deployment of certain key metaphysical notions. Subsequent chapters address the following: vagueness and logic, which discusses the sort of model theory that is suggested by the main, rival accounts of vagueness; ... Read more
This volume explores how vagueness matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else. After an introductory chapter on the Sorites paradox, which exposes the various forms the paradox can take and some of the responses that have been pursued, the book proceeds with a chapter on vagueness and metaphysics, which covers important questions concerning vagueness that arise in connection with the deployment of certain key metaphysical notions. Subsequent chapters address the following: vagueness and logic, which discusses the sort of model theory that is suggested by the main, rival accounts of vagueness; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400703742
SKU
V9789400703742
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About Giuseppina Ronzitti
Giuseppina Ronzitti is specialized in philosophy of mathematics and defended her PhD thesis on mathematical intuitionism in 2002 in Genova (Italy). She has worked as a researcher in France (Archives Poincare, Nancy) and in Finland (University of Helsinki) and has had longer and shorter stays in the Netherlands (Nijmegen), the US (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) and Norway (The Wittgenstein ... Read more
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