The Sorites Meets the Many
The objective of this paper is to understand certain issues that come up once we recognize that a good number of natural language predicates are indeterminate in two different ways. For example, the predicate 'is a mountain' is both vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. Throughout the paper I focus on how to distinguish these two kinds of indeterminacy, and on a certain problem that supervaluationism has when it is recognized that a single predicate can be vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. The problem is that supervaluationism loses its ability to capture our intuitions concerning sharp cut-offs. Finally, I offer a solution to this problem.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Panamericana, Facultad de Filosofía
2014
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0188-66492014000200006 |
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