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If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a form of ignorance - there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we can never know exactly which one it is.
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目录信息
Introduction
1. The Early History of Sorites Paradoxes
2. The Ideal of Precision
3. The Rehabilitation of Vagueness
4. Many-Valued Logic and Degrees of Truth
5. Supervaluations
6. Nihilism
7. Vagueness as Ignorance
8. Inexact Knowledge
9. Vagueness in the World
Appendix: The Logic of Clarity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Williamson这本vagueness的文笔的确不是很好……有种理科生写文章的感觉。认知主义作为解决模糊性的方案的确有长处,尤其是在保护二值原则和经典逻辑之处。不过还是太反直觉。
一般吧,没什么特别有趣的东西。有些内容一看就不是很有趣
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一般吧,没什么特别有趣的东西。有些内容一看就不是很有趣
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