24.729 Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness, Fall 2005

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Rayo, Agustín
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Topics in Philosophy of Language: Vagueness
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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.
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2005-12
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148506
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24.729-Fall2005
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24.729
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vagueness, sorites paradox, truth, supervaluationism, epistemicism, contextualism, nihilism, relativism, logical revisionism, interdeterminacy, language, inexact knowledge, logic
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