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" Vagueness and degrees of truth / "
Nicholas J.J. Smith.
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BL
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976778
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b731148
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| Main Entry
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Smith, Nicholas J. J., (Nicholas Jeremy Josef),1972-
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Vagueness and degrees of truth /\ Nicholas J.J. Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2008.
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viii, 341 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0199233004
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: 9780199233007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331) and index.
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| Contents
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Beginnings -- The space of possible theories of vagueness -- What is vagueness? -- Accommodating vagueness -- Who's afraid of degrees of truth? -- Worldly vagueness and semantic indeterminacy.
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"In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism." "Smith argues, on the basis of a detailed account of the defining features of vagueness, that an accurate theory of vagueness must involve the idea that truth comes in degrees. The core 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. Degree-theoretic treatments of vagueness have been proposed in the past, but all have encountered significant objections. In light of these, Smith develops a new type of degree theory. Its innovations include a definition of logical consequence that allows the derivation of a classical consequence relation from the degree-theoretic semantics, a unified account of degrees of belief and their relationships with degrees of truth and subjective probabilities, and the incorporation of semantic indeterminacy - the view that vague statements need not have unique meanings - into the degree-theoretic framework."--Jacket.
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Truth.
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Vagueness (Philosophy)
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Erkenntnistheorie.
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Philosophie.
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Prädikat.
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Sanning.
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Semantik.
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Truth.
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Unbestimmtheit.
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Vagheit.
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Vagueness (Philosophy)
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Wahrheitstheorie.
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Erkenntnistheorie.
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Philosophie.
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Unbestimmtheit.
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Vagheit.
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Wahrheitstheorie.
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Vaagheid.
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Waarheid.
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| Dewey Classification
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121/.4
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| LC Classification
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B105.V33S65 2008
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08.32bcl
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08.33bcl
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08.34bcl
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CC 2500rvk
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