Index
ambiguity
41, 54, 116, 119, 152
lexical
12, 15, 26
syntactic
12, 154
arbitrariness
16, 33, 54, 66, 167, 177
Austin, John Langshaw
16, 152
Ben-Yami, Hanoch
21, 25, 37, 157, 168, 173–175
bivalence, principle of
17, 44, 58–59, 63, 69, 84, 89, 115, 136
Black, Max
63, 91, 139
blindness, argument from
99, 133, 135, 137–138, 151
borderline area
,
see penumbra
borderline case
16–17, 42, 50
actual
16
possible
16
thick notion of
13–14, 18
thin notion of
13, 16
borderline susceptibility
13–14, 16, 28, 42, 50, 52, 54, 56, 69, 112, 136, 162
borderlineness
,
see borderline susceptibility
calculus conception of natural language
141, 150, 152, 155
category mistake
17, 39
charity, argument from
90, 97
closure principle, epistemic
78–79, 83
cluster term
,
see vagueness, combinatorial
context-sensitivity
27, 101, 103, 108, 128, 154, 164–165
contextualism
,
see theories of vagueness
boundary-shifting
114–115
extension-shifting
114–115
indexical
110–111, 115
non-indexical
108, 110–111, 114–115, 130, 134, 136–137
pragmatic
99, 114–115, 122, 128, 136
psychological
99, 114–115, 122, 136
definiteness operator
44–45, 69, 74, 86–89, 143, 160
degree theory
,
see theories of vagueness
dimension of comparison
21, 45, 158, 162, 166, 168, 170
discretion
124–125, 127, 164, 177–178
Dummett, Michael
23–24, 37, 57, 75–76, 157, 175
epistemicism
,
see theories of vagueness
Eubulides of Miletus
19
excluded middle, law of
15, 17, 43–44, 58, 69, 89, 98, 145
extensionality, axiom of
60, 90
Fine, Kit
16, 26, 44, 48, 69–72, 86–89, 115, 140, 144–145
forced-march experiment
90–92, 94–96, 98, 121–122, 138–139, 147, 176
Frege, Gottlob
66, 151
generality
12, 26–27
higher-order vagueness
,
see vagueness, higher-order
ideal language
4
indefiniteness operator
86
indeterminacy
de dicto
39
de re
39
linguistic
12, 14, 26
of necessary and sufficient conditions
35, 52
ontic
38
referential
38, 40
semantic
14, 16, 18, 36, 38, 43, 56, 58, 84, 86, 90, 97, 144
indexicality
15, 100, 103–104, 106, 110
indistinguishability
21–22, 113–114, 116, 125
inexact knowledge
36, 77–82
inexactness
12, 80
interest relativism
,
see theories of vagueness, interest relative
Kaplan, David
100–103, 106–107, 109–110, 115, 130
Keefe, Rosanna
69, 72–76, 85–86, 88–90, 140–142, 145, 147–148
KK principle
78–80, 82–83
Kripke, Saul
29, 40
Lewis, David
17, 37–38, 40–41, 101, 107–108, 125, 127
MacFarlane, John
103–104, 106, 108, 110, 134
Machina, Kenton
24, 44, 63, 68, 141, 145, 173
margin for error principle
36, 77, 79–81
metaphysical indeterminacy
,
see indeterminacy, ontic
metaphysical vagueness
,
see vagueness, ontic
non-contradiction, law of
61, 69, 120, 144–145
open texture
28, 32
ordinary language
4–6, 12, 16–17, 36, 150, 152, 154
ostension
144, 154, 167–168, 170, 175
paradox of accumulation
20, 23
paradox of decomposition
20, 23
Peirce, Charles Sanders
14–16, 19, 26, 36, 43, 56
penumbra
18, 37, 46, 53, 67, 82, 96, 123, 136, 138, 159, 176
penumbral connection
61, 70, 144
precisification
25, 32, 48, 69–71, 73, 75–76, 87–88, 90, 156
predicate
mathematical
3, 27–28, 63, 161
observational
23, 114, 175
problem of the many
40, 42
problem of the ship of Theseus
42
Putnam, Hilary
29
Raffman, Diana
12, 44–48, 53, 57, 63, 91–98, 113, 115, 122, 125–126, 129–130, 146–147
received view of vagueness
,
see vagueness, received view
reflective equilibrium
75, 140, 141, 147
Russell, Bertrand
14, 15, 19, 26, 36–37, 39, 43, 56
Sainsbury, Richard Mark
54, 138, 152–153, 157, 160–161, 164–165, 176
Shapiro, Stewart
12, 28, 77, 92, 113, 122–128, 136
sharpening
,
see precisification
Soames, Scott
32–33, 36, 91–92, 122–129, 133–136
sorites susceptibility
13, 23, 36–37, 50, 53, 90
thick notion of
13
thin notion of
13
soriticality
,
see sorites susceptibility
speciation
3
species term
3
subvaluationism
,
see theories of vagueness
supervaluationism
,
see theories of vagueness
theories of vagueness
contextualist
26–27, 45, 48, 57, 90, 99, 111, 138, 141, 144, 147, 151, 154, 156, 165
continuum-valued
57, 62, 68–70, 82, 84–85
epistemicist
25, 36–37, 57–58, 76, 83, 96–97
incoherentist
23, 57
interest relative
136–137
multiple range
48
subvaluationist
25, 45
supervaluationist
25, 44, 57–58, 61, 69, 76, 82, 84, 86, 88–90, 98, 122–123, 128, 145–146, 154, 156, 159, 165
three-valued
25, 44, 58, 62, 64, 69, 88, 98, 122–123, 128, 159
tolerance
21–23, 25, 33, 50–52, 56, 61, 73, 76–77, 99, 112–113, 117, 126, 128, 136, 141, 145, 148, 150–155, 157, 168–169, 171, 176–178
truth-value gap
25, 45, 48, 50, 59, 62, 64, 69–71, 74, 97–98, 136
truth-value glut
25, 45, 98
two-dimensional semantics
100, 103, 110
Tye, Michael
39–43, 59–63, 65, 69, 88–90, 115, 145
uncertainty
15–19, 30, 43, 91, 138, 168, 177
Unger, Peter
20, 23, 40, 57, 143
unwanted precision, argument from
84, 90
vague identity
,
see vagueness, ontic
vague object
,
see vagueness, ontic
vagueness
as a defect
4
as a virtue
4
combinatorial
34–36, 49, 52, 56, 162–163
degree
33, 35, 49, 52, 56, 163
extensional
31, 48, 60
higher-order
13–14, 18, 53, 55, 72, 82–83, 86–89, 159
intensional
16, 31, 48, 60
kinds of
36
multi-dimensional
14, 32–33, 35–36, 51–52, 91
one-dimensional
,
see vagueness, uni-dimensional
ontic
17, 38–41
received view of
15, 19, 36
semantic
42
uni-dimensional
14, 32–33, 52
vagueness, symptom of
13, 16, 43
Waismann, Friedrich
28, 31
Williamson, Timothy
36, 43, 57, 59, 69, 73, 76–83, 87, 94, 115, 146, 150, 160
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
4, 6–7, 9, 75, 144, 148–150, 160, 165, 177
Wright, Crispin
21–22, 50, 56, 112–113, 117, 126, 136, 141, 148–151, 157–158, 166–167