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14Sock Sorting: An Example of a Vague AlgorithmLogic Journal of the IGPL 9 (5): 687-692. 2001.We give an example of a polynomial time algorithm for a particular algorithmic problem involving vagueness and visual indiscriminability, namely sock sorting
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24Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, New York City, May 1987Journal of Symbolic Logic 53 (4): 1270-1274. 1988.
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7Review: Robert Goldblatt, Logics of Time and Computation (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 56 (4): 1495-1496. 1991.
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Modal Logic and Possible WorldsIn Henrik Lagerlund, Sten Lindström & Rysiek Sliwinski (eds.), Modality Matters: Twenty-Five Essays in Honour of Krister Segerberg, Uppsala Philosophical Studies 53. pp. 53--339. 2006.
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22It is a sunny autumn day, and our protagonists have taken their meals outside, to enjoy the mild rays of the September sun. The NIAS cook Paul Nolte, as always glowing with pride while serving out his delicious food, has prepared a traditional Dutch meal today with sausage, red cabbage and pieces of apple
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13Goldblatt Robert. Logics of time and computation. CSLI lecture notes, no. 7. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford 1987, also distributed by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ix + 131 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 56 (4): 1495-1496. 1991.
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33Vague Predicates and Language GamesTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 11 (3): 97-107. 1996.Attempts to give a Logic or Semantics for vague predicates and to defuse the Sorites paradoxes have been largely a failure. We point out yet another problem with these predicates which has not been remarked on before,namely that different people do and must use these predicates in individually different ways. Thus even if there were a semantics for vague predicates, people would not be able to share it. To explain the occurrence nonetheless of these troublesome predicates in language, we propose…Read more
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Some Reminiscences of KreiselIn Piergiorgio Odifreddi (ed.), Kreiseliana: About and Around Georg Kreisel, A K Peters. pp. 89. 1996.
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142Journal of Philosophical Logic 34, 97-119, 2005.
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24Review of “Epistemology, A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge” (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (2): 6. 2008.
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