The Sorites Meets the Many
The objective of this paper is to understand certain issues that come up once we recognize that a good number of natural language predicates are indeterminate in two different ways. For example, the predicate ’is a mountain’ is both vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. Throughout the pa...
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| description | The objective of this paper is to understand certain issues that come up once we recognize that a good number of natural language predicates are indeterminate in two different ways. For example, the predicate ’is a mountain’ is both vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. Throughout the paper I focus on how to distinguish these two kinds of indeterminacy, and on a certain problem that supervaluationism has when it is recognized that a single predicate can be vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. The problem is that supervaluationism loses its ability to capture our intuitions concerning sharp cut-offs. Finally, I offer a solution to this problem. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52bf367e3a8241e3b7031d2411e9372a2022-12-21T19:26:47ZspaUniversidad PanamericanaTópicos0188-66492007-84982014-12-0104713915810.21555/top.v0i47.665672The Sorites Meets the ManyRicardo MenaThe objective of this paper is to understand certain issues that come up once we recognize that a good number of natural language predicates are indeterminate in two different ways. For example, the predicate ’is a mountain’ is both vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. Throughout the paper I focus on how to distinguish these two kinds of indeterminacy, and on a certain problem that supervaluationism has when it is recognized that a single predicate can be vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. The problem is that supervaluationism loses its ability to capture our intuitions concerning sharp cut-offs. Finally, I offer a solution to this problem.http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx/ojs/index.php/topicos/article/view/665filosofía del lenguajefilosofía de la lógicavaguedadel problema de los muchosindeterminación semánticasupervaluacionismo. |
| spellingShingle | Ricardo Mena The Sorites Meets the Many Tópicos filosofía del lenguaje filosofía de la lógica vaguedad el problema de los muchos indeterminación semántica supervaluacionismo. |
| title | The Sorites Meets the Many |
| title_full | The Sorites Meets the Many |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Sorites Meets the Many |
| title_short | The Sorites Meets the Many |
| title_sort | sorites meets the many |
| topic | filosofía del lenguaje filosofía de la lógica vaguedad el problema de los muchos indeterminación semántica supervaluacionismo. |
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