Vagueness and thought:
"Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of proposi...
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| Summary: | "Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases. The epistemology of vagueness concerns attitudes we should have towards propositions we know to be borderline. On this basis Andrew Bacon develops a new theory of vagueness in which vagueness is fundamentally a property of propositions, explicated in terms of its role in thought."-- |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures xvii
List of Tables xix
Parti. Background
1. Non-Classical and Nihilistic Approaches 3
1.1 Responding to the Sorites 5
1.2 Weakening Classical Logic 6
1.3 Nihilism 10
2. Classical Approaches: An Overview of the Current Debate 16
2.1 Epistemicism and Supervaluationism 17
2.2 Does Vagueness Involve Ignorance? 21
2.3 Does Vagueness Involve Truth Value Gaps? 22
2.4 Many Interpretations or One? 24
2.5 Is Validity Local or Global? 26
3. An Outline of a Theory of Propositional Vagueness 30
3.1 Is Vagueness Linguistic? 31
3.2 Booleanism 32
3.3 The Epistemology of Vagueness 36
3.4 Probabilism 38
3.5 Logical Features 41
3.6 Vagueness-Related Uncertainty as a Special Sort of Psychological Attitude 43
Part II. Epistemological Matters
4. Vagueness and Language 47
4.1 Grammar 50
4.2 Parameters 53
4.3 Can One Explain Propositional Borderlineness in Terms
of Sentential Borderlineness? 54
4.4 Quantifying In 57
4.5 Vague Objects 60
4.6 Montague s Paradox 61
4.7 More Vague Propositions than Sentences 63
4.8 Vagueness and the Objects of Thought 64
5. Vagueness and Ignorance 69
5.1 In Favour of Vague Propositions 69
5.2 Explaining Ignorance about the Vague 76
5.2.1 Explaining ignorance via metalinguistic safety principles 79
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5.3 Denying Ignorance about the Vague 84
5.3.1 The fine-grained no-ignorance view 84
5.3.2 The coarse-grained no-ignorance view 86
5.3.3 Non-linguistic behaviour 88
5.3.4 The contextualist no-ignorance view 89
5.3.5 More on non-linguistic behaviour 92
6. Vagueness and Evidence 96
6.1 Inexact Evidence 97
6.2 Updating on Vague Evidence 106
6.2.1 Conditioning on a precise proposition 106
6.2.2 Jeffrey conditioning 109
6.2.3 Conditioning on a vague proposition 114
6.2.4 Evidence for the whereabouts of cutoff points 116
6.3 A Principle of Plenitude for Vague Propositions 117
6.4 Evidential Roles and Degrees of Truth 121
7. Probabilism, Assertion, and Higher-Order Vagueness 124
7.1 Fields Theory 125
7.2 Uncertainty in the Face of Higher-Order Vagueness 127
7.2.1 Vagueness and assertion 131
7.2.2 The role of borderlineness 133
7.2.3 The forced march sorites 135
7.2.4 Paradoxes of higher-order vagueness 136
7.3 Should Our Credences in the Vague Obey the Probability Calculus? 138
7.3.1 Dutch book arguments 139
7.3.2 Comparative probability judgements 144
7.3.3 Is there anything special about vagueness-related uncertainty? 148
8. Vagueness and Uncertainty 150
8.1 Expressivism about Vagueness 152
8.2 Disagreements about Morals, Conditionals, and Epistemic Modals 157
8.3 Do All Rational Disagreements about the Vague Boil Down
to Disagreements about the Precise? 161
9. Vagueness and Decision 169
9.1 Vagueness and Decision Theory 171
9.2 Vagueness and Action 174
9.3 Vagueness and Preferences 182
9.4 Probability in the Absence of Uncertainty 185
10. Vagueness and Desire 191
10.1 The View that Vagueness is Merely a Kind of Ignorance 191
10.2 The Indifference Principle 195
10.3 Caring about the Vague 196
10.4 Is it Always Possible to Articulate your Desires Using Precise Language? 200
CONTENTS XV
Part III. Logical Matters
11. Vague Propositions 205
11.1 Fineness of Grain 206
11.2 Individuation Conditions 210
11.3 A Theory of Propositions 212
11.4 Moderately Fine-Grained Theories of Content 219
12. Vagueness and Precision 222
12.1 Borderlineness as Primitive 224
12.1.1 The modal characterization of precision 226
12.1.2 Supervaluationism 227
12.1.3 Degeneracy 229
12.1.4 Doxastic features of vague propositions 232
12.2 Are the Propositions of Physics Precise? 233
12.3 Vagueness as Primitive 235
12.3.1 Determinacy operators 237
13. Symmetry Semantics 238
13.1 Where Things Stand so Far 238
13.2 Symmetries 240
13.3 Vagueness and Precision 245
13.4 A Semantical Account of Precision in Terms of Symmetries 249
13.4.1 Higher-order vagueness 251
13.4.2 Determinacy and necessity 255
14. Vagueness and the World 258
14.1 Factual Propositions and Supervaluationism 260
14.2 The Problem of Higher-Order Vagueness 262
14.2.1 Factual propositions 264
14.2.2 Fundamental propositions 267
14.3 Vagueness All the Way Down 267
15. Vagueness and Modality 275
15.1 The Interaction of Vagueness and Modality 276
15.2 The Proper Logic of Vagueness and Modality 282
15.3 The Supervenience of the Vague on the Precise 284
15.4 A Representation Theorem? 289
16. Vague Objects 296
16.1 Vagueness Throughout the Type Hierarchy 297
16.2 Vague Identity 299
16.3 Vague Parthood 304
16.4 Vague Objects 307
17. Beyond Vagueness 311
17.1 Semantic Indecision 312
17.2 Can We Get By without Semantic Indecision? 313
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17.3 An Account of Semantic Indecision 318
17.4 Concluding Remarks 325
18. Appendices 327
18.1 Appendix A 327
18.2 Appendix B 328
Bibliography
Index
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