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1 décembre 2014
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philosophy of language philosophy of logic vagueness the problem of the many semantic indeterminacy supervaluationismCiter ce document
Ricardo Mena, « The Sorites Meets the Many », Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía (México), ID : 10670/1.cnw79n
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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.