Vagueness.

Williamson, T. (1994). Vagueness. Routledge.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1994

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Vagueness/Williamson/p/book/9780415139809

Cited from

philosophy

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Primes

• Boundary
  • Philosophy of language and vagueness: Williamson's epistemic theory of vagueness

    This sourceepistemicism — vague predicates have precise but unknowable boundaries; vagueness is a feature of our knowledge/language, with sharp cutoffs that exist but cannot be known (margin-for-error principle).

Mechanisms

• Category Boundary Audit
  • Every category has some vague border — the classic sorites problem is that a boundary can be fuzzy without being wrong

    This sourceAnalyzes the sorites paradox as a central problem of vague predicates.

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