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Beschreibung
Roy Sorenson offers a unique exploration of an ancient problem: vagueness. Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe? According to Sorenson's epistemicist approach, the answers are yes! Although vagueness abounds in the way the world is divided, Sorenson argues that the divisions are sharp; yet we often do not know where they are. Written in Sorenson'e usual inventive and amusing style, this book offers original insight on language and logic, the way world is, and our understanding of it.
Roy Sorenson offers a unique exploration of an ancient problem: vagueness. Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe? According to Sorenson's epistemicist approach, the answers are yes! Although vagueness abounds in the way the world is divided, Sorenson argues that the divisions are sharp; yet we often do not know where they are. Written in Sorenson'e usual inventive and amusing style, this book offers original insight on language and logic, the way world is, and our understanding of it.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Absolute Borderline Cases

  • 2: Intellectual Embarrassment without Vagueness

  • 3: Forced Analytical Errors

  • 4: Inconsistent Machines

  • 5: Sainsbury's Spectra and the Penrose Triangle

  • 6: Does Apriority Agglomerate?

  • 7: Analytic Sorites and the Cheshire Cat

  • 8: Believing the Impossible

  • 9: Reason Demands Belief in Infinitely Many Contradictions

  • 10: The Viral Theory of Inconsistency

  • 11: Truthmaker Gaps

  • References, Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199271160
ISBN-10: 019927116X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sorensen, Roy A.
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Roy A. Sorensen
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2004
Gewicht: 0,306 kg
Artikel-ID: 120644187

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