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Epistemicism and modality
Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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What kind of semantics should someone who accepts the epistemicist theory of vagueness defended in Timothy Williamson's Vagueness (1994) give a definiteness operator? To impose some interesting constraints on acceptable answers to this question, I will assume that the object language also contains a metaphysical necessity operator and a metaphysical actuality operator. I will suggest that the answer is to be found by working within a three-dimensional model theory. I will provide sketches of two ways of extracting an epistemicist semantics from that model theory, one of which I will find to be more plausible than the other.
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vagueness, modality, epistemicism, Timothy Williamson
Date
2016
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Journal article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy
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46
Issue
4-5
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803-835
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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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