Sorites Paradoxes and the Legacy of the Ideal Language Approach (SOPhiA 2016, 8. 9. 2016, Salzburg)
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Original language name
Sorites Paradoxes and the Legacy of the Ideal Language Approach (SOPhiA 2016, 8. 9. 2016, Salzburg)
Original language description
Bertrand Russell was among the first philosophers to comment on the problem of vagueness during the resurgence of philosophical interest in sorites paradoxes early in the twentieth century. His solution consists in banishing all vague terms from the realm of logic, since logic can only be applied when precise terms are used. This "ideal language approach" doesn't belong among the most prominent even though its proponents were influential philosophers like Frege and Quine. Most of the contemporary approaches to solving sorites paradoxes agree that logic applies even to vague terms. They, however differ in their opinions regarding how logic should be applied when dealing with vague terms or even which logic should be utilized. Epistemicists, for example, believe that it is only our ignorance that prevents us from distinguishing clearly between cases to which vague terms apply and cases to which it doesn't.
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Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-19395S" target="_blank" >GA16-19395S: Semantic notions, paradoxes and hyperintensional logic based on modern ramified theory of types</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů