Vagueness and degrees of truth

著者

• Smith, Nicholas J. J. (Nicholas Jeremy Josef)

書誌事項

Vagueness and degrees of truth

by Nicholas J.J. Smith

Oxford University Press, 2013, c2008

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-331) and index

"First published 2008"--T.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Nicholas J. J. Smith argues that an adequate account of vagueness must involve degrees of truth. The basic idea of degrees of truth is that while some sentences are true and some are false, others possess intermediate truth values: they are truer than the false sentences, but not as true as the true ones. This idea is immediately appealing in the context of vagueness-yet it has fallen on hard times in the philosophical literature, with existing degree-theoretic treatments of vagueness facing apparently insuperable objections. Smith seeks to turn the tide in favour of a degree-theoretic treatment of vagueness, by motivating and defending the basic idea that truth can come in degrees. He argues that no theory of vagueness that does not countenance degrees of truth can be correct, and develops a new degree-theoretic treatment of vagueness-fuzzy plurivaluationism-that solves the problems plaguing earlier degree theories.

目次

• PART 1: FOUNDATIONS
• PART 2: VAGUENESS
• PART 3: DEGREES OF TRUTH

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB11673751
• ISBN:
  • 9780199674466
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 341 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 160
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Vagueness (Philosophy)
  • LCSH : Truth