Vagueness, uncertainty and degrees of clarity
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Vagueness, uncertainty and degrees of clarity
The focus of the paper is on the logic of clarity and the problem of higherorder vagueness. We first examine the consequences of the notion of intransitivity of indiscriminability for higher-order vagueness, and compare different theories of vagueness understood as inexact or imprecise knowledge, namely Williamson’s margin for error semantics, Halpern’s twodimensional semantics, and the system ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9684-8