this paper is the following. Section 2 will briefly review how context sets have come up in recent natural language research. Section 3 applies the idea of contextualization to the crucial inductive premiss of the sorites argument. Section 4 shows how a properly contextualized version of the paradoxical argument breaks down. Up to and including section 4, I will make use of a convenient simplication, by making some highly specific assumptions about what it can mean for an object x to be `small with respect to a comparison set' A. Section 5 will relinquish that assumption and ask on what more general assumptions about the meaning of S(x
Abstract. The idea that temporal propositions are vague predicates is examined with attention to the...
In Dummett’s important paper [1] on the sorites paradox it is suggested that the vagueness of observ...
This paper brings together several approaches to vagueness, and ends by suggesting a new approach. T...
The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp ...
The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp ...
In this paper I offer a critique of the recent popular strategy of giving a con-textualist account o...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66014/1/1467-8284.00436.pd
In the introduction to their vagueness reader, Rosanna Keefe and Peter Smith clas-sified accounts of...
This paper deals with vague predicates. In particular, the goal is to arrive at a precise characteri...
This paper brings together several approaches to vagueness, and ends by suggesting a new approach. T...
This paper deals with vague predicates. In particular, the goal is to arrive at a precise characteri...
This thesis is in two parts. In the first part I discuss various conceptions of vagueness and outlin...
The presentation of the “dual picture of vagueness” in my earlier work is supplemented here with a n...
This chapter provides a (biased) overview of analyses of vagueness within linguistics. First, the na...
This chapter argues that a term is vague if it is indeterminate. As a special case of this, it argue...
Abstract. The idea that temporal propositions are vague predicates is examined with attention to the...
In Dummett’s important paper [1] on the sorites paradox it is suggested that the vagueness of observ...
This paper brings together several approaches to vagueness, and ends by suggesting a new approach. T...
The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp ...
The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp ...
In this paper I offer a critique of the recent popular strategy of giving a con-textualist account o...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66014/1/1467-8284.00436.pd
In the introduction to their vagueness reader, Rosanna Keefe and Peter Smith clas-sified accounts of...
This paper deals with vague predicates. In particular, the goal is to arrive at a precise characteri...
This paper brings together several approaches to vagueness, and ends by suggesting a new approach. T...
This paper deals with vague predicates. In particular, the goal is to arrive at a precise characteri...
This thesis is in two parts. In the first part I discuss various conceptions of vagueness and outlin...
The presentation of the “dual picture of vagueness” in my earlier work is supplemented here with a n...
This chapter provides a (biased) overview of analyses of vagueness within linguistics. First, the na...
This chapter argues that a term is vague if it is indeterminate. As a special case of this, it argue...
Abstract. The idea that temporal propositions are vague predicates is examined with attention to the...
In Dummett’s important paper [1] on the sorites paradox it is suggested that the vagueness of observ...
This paper brings together several approaches to vagueness, and ends by suggesting a new approach. T...