Vagueness: A Guide

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Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer Verlag (2011)
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This volume analyzes and studies how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else.

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The Sorites Paradox.  (pages 1–17)Dominic Hyde
Vagueness and Metaphysics.  (pages 19--53)E. J. Lowe
Vagueness and Logic.  (pages 55--81)Stewart Shapiro
Vagueness and Meaning.  (pages 83--106)Roy T. Cook
Vagueness and Observationality.  (pages 107--121)Diana Raffman
Vagueness and Law.  (pages 171--191)Timothy Endicott

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Sorites paradox.Dominic Hyde - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Sorites Paradox.Dominic Hyde & Diana Raffman - 2012 - In Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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