Vagueness and thought /
"Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of proposi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford philosophical monographs.
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| Summary: | "Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, explicated in terms of its role in thought."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-337) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198712060 0198712065 |