#timothywilliamson

[ciarajoyce]

The Philosophy of Philosophy

The book by Timothy Williamson!!

I've just started and OMG it's been overwhelming although an amazing challenge, particularly given the fact that I had never learnt much about Logic before, so... 💢(Mind-blowing!!!)💫

My notes are helping me loads and I'm happy to share this paper I found about vagueness!! 📝

[micheledevilliers]

vagueness*

"an uncertainty in meaning - an intention, conviction, or desire is expressed but lacks the clarity or fullness necessary to be accurately conveyed beyond the person who expresses it. Vagueness considered as an epistemological condition refers to an indeterminacy of meaning that is intrinsic to an object as construed by a signifying category. A 'pile of sand' is intrinsically indeterminate, but a 'pound of sugar' is not. A 'pile of sand' has a comprehensible meaning and conjures up knowable instances, but the object that constitutes that meaning possesses an inherent vagueness in its dimensional and compositional qualities. The boundary that would categorically include or exclude similar objects is unclear. A 'pound of sugar', by contrast, references both a comprehensible meaning and a determinate object and maintains a rigid categorical limit of dimension and composition " - Low Fidelity (2016) Timothy Hyde.

*Timothy Williamson (1994) Vagueness