Vagueness: A Conceptual Spaces Approach

نویسندگان

  • Igor Douven
  • Lieven Decock
  • Richard Dietz
  • Paul Égré
چکیده

The conceptual spaces approach has recently emerged as a novel account of concepts. Its guiding idea is that concepts can be represented geometrically, by means of metrical spaces. While it is generally recognized that many of our concepts are vague, the question of how to model vagueness in the conceptual spaces approach has not been addressed so far, even though the answer is far from straightforward. The present paper aims to fill this lacuna.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Philosophical Logic

دوره 42  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013