Conjunction-based sorites: A misguided objection to degree-theoretic (fuzzy) solutions to sorites paradoxes [Book Review]

Journal of Philosophical Logic 39 (1):1 - 4 (2010)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In 1987, Crispin Wright argued that degree-theoretic (fuzzy) solutions to the Sorites paradox fail because the solutions do not work when the paradox is restated using a conjunctive major premise. I show that Wright is incorrect: degree-theoretic solutions also work when the paradox is stated with a conjunctive major premise.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1007/s10992-009-9121-y

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,349

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

What the Bald man can tell us.Jaakko Hintikka - unknown
Cut-offs and their Neighbors.Achille C. Varzi - 2003 - In Jc Beall (ed.), Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox. Clarendon Press. pp. 24–38.
Phenomenal Sorites Paradoxes and Looking the Same.Rosanna Keefe - 2011 - Dialectica 65 (3):327-344.
Strict Finitism and the Happy Sorites.Ofra Magidor - 2012 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 41 (2):471-491.
A procedural solution to the unexpected hanging and sorites paradoxes.SC Shapiro - 1998 - Mind 107 (428):751-762.
On the Circularity in the Sorites Paradox.Paul Franceschi - unknown
Vagueness and domain restriction.Peter Pagin - unknown
Remarks on the Current Status of the Sorites Paradox.Richard DeWitt - 1992 - Journal of Philosophical Research 17 (1):93.
Context-Dependence and the Sorites.Graeme Forbes - unknown

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-11-21

Downloads
46 (#337,879)

6 months
2 (#1,232,442)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Metamathematics of Fuzzy Logic.Petr Hájek - 1998 - Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Book Reviews. [REVIEW]P. Hájek - 2002 - Studia Logica 72 (3):433-443.

Add more references