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TY - BOOK ID - Williamson96 L3 - citeulike-article-id:682113 N2 - <P><b></b><b><i>Vagueness</i></b> provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches such as fuzzy logic. He illustrates the problems with views which have taken the position that standard logic and formal semantics do not apply to vague language, and defends the controversial realistic view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance--that there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we cannot know which one it is.</P> When did Rembrandt get old? Such questions eventually lead us to the problem of vagueness. Williamson traces its history, questions conventional theories and defends the realist view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance. SN - 0415139805 TI - Vagueness (Problems of Philosophy (Routledge (Firm)).) PB - Routledge KW - fuzzy_logic KW - philosophy AU - Williamson, T PY - 1996/05/07/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0415139805 ER -