NDLI: Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Gross, Steven
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Michael Tye responds to the problem of higher-order vagueness for his trivalent semantics by maintaining that truth-value predicates are “vaguely vague”: it’s indeterminate, on his view, whether they have borderline cases and therefore indeterminate whether every sentence is true, false, or indefinite. Rosanna Keefe objects (1) that Tye’s argument for this claim tacitly assumes that every sentence is true, false, or indefinite, and (2) that the conclusion is any case not viable. I argue – contra (1) – that Tye’s argument needn’t make that assumption. A version of her objection is in fact better directed against other arguments Tye advances, though Tye can absorb this criticism without abandoning his position’s core. On the other hand, Keefe’s second objection does hit the mark: embracing ‘vaguely vague’ truth-value predicates undermines Tye’s ability to support validity claims needed to defend his position. To see this, however, we must develop Keefe’s remarks further than she does.
Starting Page	97
Ending Page	117
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	156
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-02-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Epistemology Logic Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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