Daily Archives: August 20, 2009

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Bookmarks for August 17th through August 20th

These are my links for August 17th through August 20th: Mark Colyvan, A topological sorites | PhilPapers – This paper considers a generalisation of the sorites paradox, in which only topological notions are employed. We argue that by increasing the level of abstraction in this way, we see the sorites paradox in a new, more revealing light—a light that forces attention on cut-off points of vague predicates. The generalised sorites paradox presented here also gives rise to a new, more tractable definition of vagueness. Vincent F. Hendricks, The Bain of two truths | PhilPapers – A view among methodologists is […]