Context, Interest Relativity And The Sorites
Year:
2003Published in:
AnalysisAccording to what I will call a contextualist soluti vague terms are context-sensitive, and one can tion of the sorites paradox in terms of this conte according to the contextualist, that precise bound'heap'or'tall for a basketball player'are so diffic two entities are sufficiently similar (or saliently the interpretation of the vague expression so th in the extension of the property expressed by th other. As a consequence, when we look for the of a vague expression in its penumbra, our very changing the interpretation of the vague expre is not where we are looking. This accounts for sorites arguments.
Related by author
56 publications found
The Emergency Manager: Strategic Racism, Technocracy, And The Poisoning Of Flint'S Children
Publisher: The Good Society
Authors: Jason Stanley
How Propaganda Works
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Authors: Jason Stanley
II—Jason Stanley: Hornsby On The Phenomenology Of Speech
Publisher: The Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
Authors: Jason Stanley, Jennifer Hornsby
Knowing How
Publisher: The Journal of Philosophy
Authors: Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson
Is The United States A ‘Racial Democracy’
Publisher: New York Times
Authors: Jason Stanley, Vesla Weaver
When Free Speech Becomes A Political Weapon
Publisher: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Authors: Jason Stanley, Kate Manne
Truth And Metatheory In Frege
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Authors: Jason Stanley
Is Epistemology Tainted?
Publisher: Disputatio
Authors: Jason Stanley
Knowledge And Practical Interests
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Authors: Jason Stanley
Buffalo Shooting: How White Replacement Theory Keeps Inspiring Mass Murder
Publisher: The Guardian
Authors: Jason Stanley