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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,...

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Main Author: Bacon, Andrew, 1985- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Oxford philosophical monographs.
Subjects:
Vagueness (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Vague (Philosophie)
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Knowledge, Theory of
Electronic books.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191020032
0191020036
9780191780264
019178026X