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Concepts without boundaries

R. M. Sainsbury

In Rosanna Keefe & Peter Smith (eds.), Vagueness: A Reader. MIT Press. pp. 186-205 (1996)

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Transvaluationism, common sense and indirect correspondence.Matjaž Potrč - 2002 - Acta Analytica 17 (2):101-119.details The problem of reconciling the philosophical denial of ontological vagueness with common-sense beliefs positing vague objects, properties and relations is addressed. This project arises for any view denying ontological vagueness but is especially pressing for transvaluationism, which claims that ontological vagueness is impossible. The idea that truth, for vague discourse and vague thought-content, is an indirect form of language-thought correspondence is invoked and applied. It is pointed out that supervaluationism provides one way, but not necessarily the only way, of implementing (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
What Verities May Be.Igor Douven & Lieven Decock - 2017 - Mind 126 (502):386-428.details Edgington has proposed a solution to the sorites paradox in terms of ‘verities’, which she defines as degrees of closeness to clear truth. Central to her solution is the assumption that verities are formally probabilities. She is silent on what verities might derive from and on why they should be probabilities. This paper places Edgington’s solution in the framework of a spatial approach to conceptualization, arguing that verities may be conceived of as deriving from how our concepts relate to each (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 16 citations
On Evans's Vague Object from Set Theoretic Viewpoint.Shunsuke Yatabe & Hiroyuki Inaoka - 2006 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 35 (4):423-434.details Gareth Evans proved that if two objects are indeterminately equal then they are different in reality. He insisted that this contradicts the assumption that there can be vague objects. However we show the consistency between Evans's proof and the existence of vague objects within classical logic. We formalize Evans's proof in a set theory without the axiom of extensionality, and we define a set to be vague if it violates extensionality with respect to some other set. There exist models of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Semivaluationism: Putting vagueness in context in context.Roy Sorensen - 2008 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2):471–483.details Download Export citation Bookmark 14 citations
What Vagueness Consists In.Matti Eklund - 2005 - Philosophical Studies 125 (1):27-60.details The main question of the paper is that ofwhat vagueness consists in. This question must be distinguished from other questions about vagueness discussed in the literature. It is argued that familiar accounts of vagueness for general reasons failto answer the question ofwhat vagueness consists in. A positive view is defended, according to which, roughly, the vagueness of an expression consists in it being part ofsemantic competence to accept a tolerance principle for the expression. Since tolerance principles are inconsistent, this is (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 45 citations
Instrumentos, Artefactos y Contexto.Ricardo Mena - 2018 - Análisis Filosófico 38 (1):83-102.details It is notoriously difficult to model the range of application of vague predicates relative to a suitable sorites series. In this paper I offer some critical remarks against an interesting view that has received little attention in the literature. According to it, the sharp cut-offs we find in our semantic models are just artifacts of the theory, and, as such, they are harmless. At the end I discuss a contextualist view that, at a cost, may be able to get around (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Vagueness and Meaning.Roy T. Cook - 2011 - In Giuseppina Ronzitti (ed.), Vagueness: A Guide. Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer Verlag. pp. 83--106.details Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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