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Vagueness: Subvaluationism
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Abstract
Supervaluationism is a well known theory of vagueness. Subvaluationism is a less well known theory of vagueness. But these theories cannot be taken apart, for they are in a relation of duality that can be made precise. This paper provides an introduction to the subvaluationist theory of vagueness in connection to its dual, supervaluationism. A survey on the supervaluationist theory can be found in the Compass paper of ; our presentation of the theory in this paper will be short to get rapidly into the logical issues. This paper is relatively self‐contained. A modest background on propositional modal logic is, though not strictly necessary, advisable. The reader might find useful the Compass papers and (though these papers cover issues of more complexity than what is demanded to follow this paper).
Title: Vagueness: Subvaluationism
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Abstract
Supervaluationism is a well known theory of vagueness.
Subvaluationism is a less well known theory of vagueness.
But these theories cannot be taken apart, for they are in a relation of duality that can be made precise.
This paper provides an introduction to the subvaluationist theory of vagueness in connection to its dual, supervaluationism.
A survey on the supervaluationist theory can be found in the Compass paper of ; our presentation of the theory in this paper will be short to get rapidly into the logical issues.
This paper is relatively self‐contained.
A modest background on propositional modal logic is, though not strictly necessary, advisable.
The reader might find useful the Compass papers and (though these papers cover issues of more complexity than what is demanded to follow this paper).
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