L. Burns: Vagueness | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

This work is in two parts. It began as a general investigation of vagueness in natural languages. The Sorites Paradox came to dominate the work however, and the second part of the book consists in an discussion ofthat puzzle and related problems. The first part contains a general discussion ofthe nature ofvagueness and its sources. I discuss various conceptions of vagueness in chapter 1 and outline some of the problems to do with the conception of vagueness as a linguistic phenomenon. The most interesting of these is the Sorites paradox, which occurs where natural languages exhibit a particular variety of borderline case vagueness. I discuss some sources of vagueness of the borderline case variety, and views of the relation between linguistic behaviour and languages which are vague in this sense. I argue in chapter 2 that these problems are not to be easily avoided by statistical averaging techniques or attempts to provide a mathematical model of consensus in linguistic usage. I also consider in chapter 3 various approaches to the problem of providing an adequate logic and semantics for vague natural languages, and argue against two currently popular approaches to vagueness. These are supervaluation accounts which attempt to provide precise semantic models for vague languages based on the notion of specification spaces, and attempts to replace the laws ofclassical logic with systems offuzzy logic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I-Puzzles Problems and Paradoxes.- One Conceptions of Vagueness.- 2 Linguistic Behaviour.- 3 Approaches to Vagueness.- II-The Sorites Paradox.- 4 The Paradox.- 5 Responses to the Paradox.- 6 A Solution to the Paradox.- 7 Further Problems and Puzzles.- 8 Vagueness and Perception.- 9 Conclusions.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Reason and Argument
Inhalt:	xii 202 S.
ISBN-13:	9789401055451
ISBN-10:	9401055459
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Burns, L.
Hersteller:	Springer Springer Netherland Reason and Argument
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	L. Burns
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.10.2012
Gewicht:	0,341 kg