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326Vagueness, tolerance and contextual logicSynthese 174 (1). 2010.The goal of this paper is a comprehensive analysis of basic reasoning patterns that are characteristic of vague predicates. The analysis leads to rigorous reconstructions of the phenomena within formal systems. Two basic features are dealt with. One is tolerance: the insensitivity of predicates to small changes in the objects of predication (a one-increment of a walking distance is a walking distance). The other is the existence of borderline cases. The paper shows why these should be treated as…Read more
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21Is the "Bottom-Up" Approach from the Theory of Meaning to Metaphysics Possible?Journal of Philosophy 93 (8): 373-407. 1996.
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101A reason for theoretical termsErkenntnis 32 (2). 1990.The presence of nonobservational vocabulary is shown to be necessary for wide application of a conservative principle of theory revision.
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73The paper outlines a project in the philosophy of mathematics based on a proposed view of the nature of mathematical reasoning. It also contains a brief evaluative overview of the discipline and some historical observations; here it points out and illustrates the division between the philosophical dimension, where questions of realism and the status of mathematics are treated, and the more descriptive and looser dimension of epistemic efficiency, which has to do with ways of organizing the mathe…Read more
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141Probabilities over rich languages, testing and randomnessJournal of Symbolic Logic 47 (3): 495-548. 1982.
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