The Riddle of Vagueness

by Crispin Wright

It was well known to the Greeks that the phenomenon of vagueness in natural language gives rise to hard problems and paradoxes, yet more than two millennia passed before Philosophy began to pay any degree of concerted attention to the challenges of vagueness to match the effort expended, for example, on the Liar paradox and its kin. This situation changed dramatically in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when the Sorites paradox in particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199277338
• ISBN13: 9780199277339
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"