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We receive three educations:. one from our parents, one from our schoolmaster, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
ISBN10: 0199915105, ISBN13: 9780199915101, [publisher: OUP USA] Hardcover Signed and inscribed by the author on the first blank, this is a very clean and tight copy in an unclipped dust wrapper. [Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]
Diana Raffman (Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto)
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ISBN10: 0199915105, ISBN13: 9780199915101, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Hardcover In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed. [Nagoya, AICHI, Japan] [Publication Year: 2014]
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Hardback. New. In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed. ISBN 0199915105 9780199915101 [GB]
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ISBN10: 0199915105, ISBN13: 9780199915101, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Vague words, like "tall," "rich," and "old," lack clear boundaries of application: no clear line divides the tall people from the above average, or the old people from the middle-aged. Because they lack clear boundaries, these ordinary words cause logical and semantic problems in various disciplines including philosophy, decision theory, and the law. Philosophers and linguists have proposed several theories of vagueness to handle these difficulties, but none hasbeen widely accepted.Raffman contends that virtually all previous treatments of vagueness have made two crucial mistakes: they have supposed that a semantic (non-epistemic) theorymust abandon bivalence, and they have paid insufficient attention to the character of ordinary speech using vague words. She develops a new theory of vagueness-the multiple range theory-that corrects both of these errors. The new theory begins with the observation that ordinary speakers seem to apply vague words in multiple arbitrarily different but equally competent ways, even when all contextual factors are held fixed. Raffman interprets this feature of their use as evidence of multipleranges of application in the semantics of vague words, where a range of application is a range of properties whose instances satisfy the word in question; for example, a range of application of "tall" ...
ISBN10: 0199915105, ISBN13: 9780199915101, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.88 [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]
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