Search for dissertations about: "Soames"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word Soames.

2. 1. Extensions in Flux : An Essay on Vagueness and Context Sensitivity

   Author : Jonas Åkerman; Peter Pagin; Diana Raffman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vagueness; context sensitivity; contextualism; weak tolerance; sorites paradox; forced march; equivocation; indexicals; Fara; Raffman; Shapiro; Soames; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp boundaries, and this makes such predicates susceptible to soritical reasoning, i.e. reasoning that leads to some version of the notorious sorites paradox. READ MORE