Search
Images
Play
News
Gmail
Drive
Calendar
Translate
More
»
My library
|
Help
|
Advanced Book Search
|
Web History
|
Sign in
Advanced Book Search
Books
books.google.com.pk
http://books.google.com.pk/books/about/Vagueness.html?id=bOxhAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-share
Vagueness
Get print book
No eBook available
Amazon.com
Find in a library
All sellers
»
Vagueness
:
an investigation into natural languages and the Sorites Paradox
Linda Claire Burns
0
Reviews
http://books.google.com.pk/books/about/Vagueness.html?id=bOxhAAAAMAAJ
Kluwer Academic Publishers
, 1991 -
Language Arts & Disciplines
-
202 pages
From inside the book
What people are saying
-
Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Related books
Philosophy of Language: Pragmatics, Thought, and Some Contemporary ..., Volume 4
Aloysius Martinich
Snippet view
- 2009
Translations from the philosophical writings of Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
Snippet view
- 1952
Approaching vagueness
Thomas T. Ballmer
,
Manfred Pinkal
Snippet view
- 1983
All related books »
Contents
LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR
31
APPROACHES TO VAGUENESS
47
THE PARADOX
83
Copyright
6 other sections not shown
Other editions -
View all
Vagueness: an investigation into natural languages and the Sorites Paradox
Linda Claire Burns
Snippet view
- 1991
Vagueness: An Investigation Into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox
L. Burns
No preview available
- 2012
Common terms and phrases
accept
alternative
appears
argued
assigned
atomic
Bivalence
borderline case vagueness
chapter
claim
classical logic
classification range
coherent
conception of vagueness
concerning
conclusion
consists
context
degree of truth
determining concept
discernibly different
discriminate
discussed
existence
Frege's
Fregean sense
Fregean vagueness
further
fuzzy logic
heap
higher order vagueness
incoherence thesis
inconsistent
indefinite
indeterminate
indiscernible
induction step
interpretation
involve
judgements
kind
language users
mathematical induction
matter
meaning
metalanguage
Modus Ponens
notion
objects
observational predicates
ordinary
pair
penumbral connexions
perception
phenomenal shade
plausible
possible
precise languages
precisifications
predicate applies
predicate's application
premiss
Principle of Bivalence
principles
problem
purely observational
qualia
question
reason
rejected
relevant
respect
scope
seems
semantic
sense
sentence
sharp boundaries
sharp limits
Sorites argument
Sorites Paradox
speakers
specification
supervaluation
suppose
things
true or false
truth conditions
truth theory
truth-value
uncertainty
vague language
vague predicates
vagueness in language
wombat
Wright's arguments
References to this book
From other books
Pragmatics of Mathematics Education
Tim Rowland
Limited preview
- 2000
Vagueness in Context
Stewart Shapiro
No preview available
- 2006
All Book Search results »
From Google Scholar
Hedging in Scientifically Oriented Discourse Exploring Variation ...
Teppo Varttala
Conceptions of gradience in the history of linguistics
Bas Aarts
-
2004
-
Language Sciences
Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache ...
David Samuels
-
2001
-
American Ethnologist
Supervaluationism and Its Logics
Achille C Varzi
-
2007
-
Mind
All Scholar search results »
Bibliographic information
Title
Vagueness: an investigation into natural languages and the Sorites Paradox
Issue 4 of Reason and argument
Volume 4 of Studies in Philosophy and Religion
Author
Linda Claire Burns
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
25 Apr 2008
ISBN
0792314891, 9780792314899
Length
202 pages
Subjects
Language Arts & Disciplines
›
Linguistics
›
General
Ambiguity
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Language and logic
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Logic
Semantics (Philosophy)
Sorites paradox
Vagueness (Philosophy)
 
 
Export Citation
BiBTeX
EndNote
RefMan