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Vagueness : An Investigation Into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox by Linda Claire Burns (auth.) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Vagueness : An Investigation Into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox about?
This work is in two parts. It began as a general investigation of vagueness in natural languages. The Sorites Paradox came to dominate the work however, and the second part of the book consists in an discussion ofthat puzzle and related problems. The first part contains a general discussion ofthe nature ofvagueness and its sources. I discuss various conceptions of vagueness in chapter 1 and outline some of the problems to do with the conception of vagueness as a linguistic phenomenon. The most i
Who reads Vagueness : An Investigation Into Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Linda Claire Burns (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789401134941
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Social Science, Logic
- Updated
- 2026-03-25