Vagueness and Thought

Author	: Andrew Bacon
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 361
Release	: 2018
ISBN-13	: 9780198712060
ISBN-10	: 0198712065
Rating	: 4/5 (65 Downloads)

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Download or read book Vagueness and Thought written by Andrew Bacon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, explicated in terms of its role in thought."--

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