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  title info:
    title: Vagueness
    sub title: a global approach
  name:
    name part: Fine, Kit
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 93 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: The book is about the problem of vagueness. It begins by discussing some of the existing views on vagueness and then explains why they have not been thought to be satisfactory. It then outlines a new account of vagueness, based upon the general idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon.. In other words, the vagueness of an expression or object is not an intrinsic feature of the object or an expression but a matter of how it relates to other objects and expression. The development of this idea leads to a new semantics and logic for vagueness. The semantics and logic are then applied to a number of issues, including the sorites paradox, the transparency of mental states, and personal identity. It is shown that the view allows one to hew to a much more intuitive position on these various issues.
  note: Kit Fine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [87]-89) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Vagueness (Philosophy)
  classification: B105.V33 F56 2020
  classification: 110
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Rutgers lectures in philosophy
  identifier: 9780197514955
  identifier: 0197514952
  identifier: 9780197514979
  identifier: 9780197514986
  identifier: 2019051758
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191122
    record change date: 20201020070549.0
    record identifier: in00004161269