Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth

The Boolean Many-Valued Approach

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Akiba, Ken

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This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an incorrect and harmful conception. Classical logic is certainly a Boolean logic, and the smallest (non-degenerate) Boolean algebra is the 2-element Boolean algebra;

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-74174-6

ProduktartBuch

EinbandGebunden

VerlagSpringer

Erscheinungsdatum19.11.2024

Auflage2024

ReiheSynthese Library

Reihen-Nr.493

Seiten159 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

IllustrationenXX, 180 p. 26 illus.

WarengruppePhilosophie

KategoriePhilosophie

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Akiba, Ken

Ken Akiba is an associate professor of philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. His areas of specialty are philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His particular interest over the years has been on vagueness and indeterminacy. He has published papers on vagueness in such journals as Mind, Noûs, Synthese, and Journal of Philosophical Logic. He is the co-editor of Vague Objects and Vague Identity: New Essays on Ontic Vagueness (Springer, 2014) and author of The Philosophy Major's Introduction to Philosophy: Concepts and Distinctions (Routledge, 2021). His work on vagueness and indeterminacy has recently been featured in such introductory textbooks as Alyssa Ney, Metaphysics, 2nd edn. (Routledge, 2023), and Alessandro Torza, Indeterminacy in the World (Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics, 2023). He has just written an encyclopedia article on vagueness for H. Nesi & M. Pilin (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition (Elsevier).