24.729 Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness, Fall 2005
Author(s)
Rayo, Agustin
Alternative Title
Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness
Date Issued
December 2005
Abstract
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.
Subjects
vagueness
sorites paradox
truth
supervaluationism
epistemicism
contextualism
nihilism
relativism
logical revisionism
interdeterminacy
language
inexact knowledge
logic
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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