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    Sorensen on vagueness and contradiction

    Edgington, D. (2010) Sorensen on vagueness and contradiction. In: Dietz, R. and Moruzzi, S. (eds.) Cuts and Clouds. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, p. 91. ISBN 9780199570386.

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    Abstract

    This chapter discusses some themes from Roy Sorensen's book Vagueness and Contradiction. While agreeing with Sorensen that the major premise in a Sorites argument must be false, it rejects the consequences that Sorensen draws from this: that vague predicates have sharp boundaries, and that the phenomenon is to be explained in terms of ‘truthmaker gaps’. It is argued that ‘gappy’ theories of a variety of kinds, including McGee and McLaughlin's theory, misrepresent the phenomenon of vagueness. Further, some of the problems Sorensen raises disappear on a degree-theoretic approach to vagueness.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Sorensen, Sorites paradox, truthmaker gaps, McGee and McLaughlin, degree-theoretic approach
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2011 11:54
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:54
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2929

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