Vagueness and Degrees of Truth

by Nicholas J.J. Smith

Book Overview

Nicholas J. J. Smith argues that an adequate account of vagueness must involve degrees of truth. The basic idea of degrees of truth is that while some sentences are true and some are false, others possess intermediate truth values: they are truer than the false sentences, but not as true as the true ones. This idea is immediately appealing in the context of vagueness--yet it has fallen on hard times in the philosophical literature, with existing degree-theoretic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199674469
• ISBN13: 9780199674466
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"