24.729 Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness, Fall 2005

24.729 Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness, Fall 2005

The objective of the graduate-level course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's hard, and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rayo, Agustín
Other Authors:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format:	Learning Object
Language:	en-US
Published:	2023
Subjects:	vagueness sorites paradox truth supervaluationism epistemicism contextualism nihilism relativism logical revisionism interdeterminacy language inexact knowledge logic 161200 Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148506

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Summary:	The objective of the graduate-level course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's hard, and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness.