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W.V.O. Quine - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000), American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. His major works include From a Logical Point of View (1953) and Word and Object (1960). His fields of specialization were philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.
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Vagueness, philosophy: there are descriptions of objects or situations that are necessarily not fully determined. For example, the indication whether a given hue is still red or already orange is not always decidable. It is a property of the language to provide vague predicates. Whether vagueness is a property of the world is controversial. See also sorites, indeterminacy, under-determinateness, intensification, penumbra._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
Author | Item | More concepts for author | |
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Field, Hartry | Vagueness | Field | |
Fraassen, Bas van | Vagueness | Fraassen | |
Gärdenfors, Peter | Vagueness | Gärdenfors | |
Lewis, David K. | Vagueness | Lewis | |
Logic Texts | Vagueness | Logic Texts | |
McGinn, Colin | Vagueness | McGinn | |
Putnam, Hilary | Vagueness | Putnam | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Vagueness | Quine | |
Sainsbury, Richard M. | Vagueness | Sainsbury | |
Williamson, Timothy | Vagueness | Williamson | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Vagueness | Wittgenstein | |
Wright, Crispin | Vagueness | Wright | |
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