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Auteur(s) : Bones, Inga
Titre(s) : How to swim in sinking sands [Texte imprimé] : the sorites paradox and the nature and logic of vague language / Inga Bones
Publication : Paderborn : Brill, Mentis, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-192 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 181-187. Notes bibliogr. Index
Texte remanié de : Doctoral dissertation : Philosophy : Friedrich Alexander Universität
Erlangen Nünrberg : 2018
This book reassesses philosophical approaches to linguistic vagueness, a puzzling
feature of natural language that gives rise to the ancient Sorites paradox.The paradox
consists in three claims: (1) One grain of sand does not make a heap. (2) One billion
grains of sand do make a heap. (3) For any two amounts of sand differing by at most
one grain: either both are heaps of sand, or neither one is.Claim (3) is rendered
plausible by an initial conviction that vague predicates like "heap" tolerate small
changes. The repeated application of a tolerance principle to claim (2), however,
yields the further proposition that one grain of sand does make a heap ? which contradicts
claim number one. Consequently, many philosophers reject or modify tolerance principles
for vague predicates. Inga Bones reassesses prominent responses to the Sorites and
defends a Wittgensteinian dissolution of the paradox. She argues that vague predicates
are, indeed, tolerant and discusses how this finding relates to the paradox itself,
to the notion of validity and to the concept of a borderline case
Sujet(s) : Sorite
Philosophie du langage
Sémantique (philosophie)
Vague (philosophie)
Indice(s) Dewey :
165 (23e éd.) = Erreurs (faux raisonnement) et sources d'erreurs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783957431974. - ISBN 3957431972
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46653425j
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